The Folly of Apolitical Science
By Johnathan Flowers, PhD A persistent myth in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Medicine) fields argues that sci...
November 15, 2021
Share Your ELSI Research Tools
by Deanne Dunbar Dolan, PhD I write today to encourage ELSI scholars to deposit their published and unpublished res...
September 29, 2021
Stem Cell Bioethics vs. Disability Rights
by A. Rahman Ford, JD, PhD There can be no question that current FDA regulations regarding the use of one’s own stem cel...
June 18, 2021
Vaccine Approval and Public Trust: The Dynamic Factors Influencing When a COVID-19 Vaccine...
by Berklee Robins, MD, MA & Ashley Sweet, MD, MBE Vaccines are approved when it is clear that the benefits to the in...
October 14, 2020
Considering Systemic Discrimination in Tenure
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last week I was speaking with a friend who works at another university and we were discussing on...
August 11, 2020
“Thank You for Your Sacrifice”: De Facto Rationing Based on Snake Oil Pitches
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Dale is a 45-year-old woman who lives in Southern California. She has been a patient of Kaiser- ...
March 26, 2020
Glossary for a Pandemic
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. The last time the United States faced a pandemic on its shores was in 1976, when the threat of t...
March 14, 2020
“If Masks Don’t Work, Why Are You Wearing One?”
by Stephen P. Wood, MS, ACNP-BC I haven’t had this question from a patient yet, but I know it’s coming. The information ...
March 12, 2020
“Living robots”: Ethical questions about Xenobots
by Simon Coghlan, Ph.D. and Kobi Leins, Ph.D. Xenobots have been called “novel living machines” and “living robots”. A c...
February 20, 2020
The Price for Eternal Youth is $1 Million and Dumping Ethics
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. As the legend goes, in the 16th Century, when he was 51 years of age, Ponce de Leon received per...
January 19, 2020
Randomized Trials are Deeply Offensive
This post appears by special arrangement with the American Journal of Bioethics. by John D. Lantos, MD In this issue, Ma...
January 7, 2020
Frontiers in Bioethics
This post appears by special arrangement with the American Journal of Bioethics. by David Magnus, Ph.D. Last year a bioe...
January 7, 2020