Sandwalk

(This is a copy of an essay that I published in 2006. I made some minor revisions to remove outdated context.) Overheard at breakfast ...

This video raises many complicated issues. It's a confrontation between students and anti-abortion protestors on the University of Orego...

I had an interesting conversation with a student the other day. She's studying "bioethics" at the University of Toronto. This ...

Udo Schüklenk is a Professor of Philsophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His specialty is bioethics. Udo gave a ...

Lots of people are having their genomes sequenced or otherwise analyzed for specific alleles. Those people should get all the information th...

  From MSNBC and Associated Press: Police: Teen shot dead after Halloween prank . ATLANTA — Authorities say a driver enraged after his Merce...

  What do you do when a scientists (PI, post-doc, graduate student) is caught falsifying data? Should they be expelled from the community, f...

  There are some really interesting ethical issues associated with vaccinations. The advantages of vaccination benefit the entire community ...

  Eva Amsen was reading a book in a student study lounge when she was asked to participate in a survey [ Spent - Review ]. The question was ...

  Let me make this perfectly clear—in my opinion, any society that condones and practices torture is a society in which the rights of all in...

  I'm at the Chautauqua Institution this week where the theme is The Ethical Frontiers of Science . Today's speaker was Arthur Capla...

  Kristin Roovers was a post-doc at the Ottawa Health Research Institute in Ottawa (Canada) until last week. Her job was abruptly terminated...

  We eat cloned organisms every day, but they're plants (e.g., bananas). Apparently, some people have a great fear of eating cloned anim...

  Researchers from Stemagen a private stem-cell research company in California, have created human clones by the same techniques used to c...

  What freshman engineering students think about cheating.

  Last week I posted an article on cloning humans. It was a reference to a piece in New Scientist by Hugh McLachlan, a Professor of ethics ...

  In the July 21 issue of New Scientist , Hugh McLachlan thinks that we should legalize cloning of humans [ Let's legalise cloning ]. Bu...

  When post-docs and graduate students finish their projects in a research laboratory they leave their notebooks behind. Those belong to the...

  Arthur Caplan is the director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. He was written an article on the MSNBC websit...

  This is a survey on ethics developed by workers at Carnegie Mellon University for readers of the New York Times [ Survey on Ethical Standa...