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Made to order
Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse? By Erik Parens.
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Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users
The Tor Project's director accuses Carnegie Mellon of providing its Tor-breaking research in secret to the FBI in exchange for a payment of "at least $1 million." By Andy Greenberg.
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Organ waiting list policy benefits the wealthy, study charges
Wealthier patients can afford to get on more organ transplant lists, giving them an advantage, a new study says. By Laura Beil.
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Worth the Risk?
For most patients, morcellation means less-invasive surgery. For others, it can be a death sentence. Alison Motluk investigates why two former Harvard doctors are trying to ban a procedure that left one of them riddled with cancer. By Alison Motluk.
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The weight of a butterfly
The design for the first atomic bomb was frighteningly simple: One lump of a special kind of uranium, the projectile, was fired at a very high speed into another lump of that same rare uranium, the target... By Emily Strasser.
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Just Sterilize Me, Already!
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve known having kids is not for me. At 25, I couldn’t be more certain about my decision to undergo sterilization. So why does every doctor, nurse and therapist in sight keep trying to convince me otherwise? By EP Wohlfart.
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Medical Research: The Dangers to the Human Subjects
Marcia Angell reviews “The Nuremberg Code” issued by the Nuremberg tribunal in 1947, “The Declaration of Helsinki” issued by the World Medical Association in 1964 and revised most recently in 2013, and “The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe” by Robert L. Klitzman. First of two articles.
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Why It's OK to Block Ads | Practical Ethics
Over the past couple of months, the practice of ad blocking has received heightened ethical scrutiny. (1,2,3,4) If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “ad blocking” refers to software—usually web browser plug-ins, but increasingly mobile apps—that stop most ads from appearing when you use websites or apps that would otherwise show them. Arguments against ad blocking tend to focus on the potential economic harms. Because advertising is the dominant business model on the internet, if...
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Doctors, Patients Battling Sky-High Drug Price Increase
Doctors and patients say something must be done to stop Catalyst Pharmaceuticals (CPRX) from emulating the indefensible drug-pricing strategies of Valeant Pharm and Turing Pharma.
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How Trigger Warnings Broke My Back
I recently taught a class about the evolution of the representation of sex throughout American Cinema. It started with silent film The Cheat and ended with Spike Jonze’s disembodied sex in Her. Along the way, I showed a number of films that had caused a lot of controversy when they were first released... By Rani Neutill.
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Chinese Researchers Knock Out Myostatin Gene in Beagles with CRISPR, Generating First Gene-Edited Dogs
An extra-muscular beagle has been created through genome engineering. Are we on our way to customizing the DNA of our pets?
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The Barrel
For a sign language interpreter at a murder trial, the crowning achievement is utter neutrality. By Paul Auckland Best.
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The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield
She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to communicate with the outside world. The relationship that followed would lead to a criminal trial. By Daniel Engber.
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The Ethics of Killing Baby Hitler
A moral dilemma is better understood as a historical one.
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Devoted to Terror: How the Camps Were Run
Thomas Laqueur reviews “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” by Nikolaus Wachsmann.
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Right Does Not Make It Right
On the difference between a constitutional right to free speech and what we consider morally appropriate speech.
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Challenge Harper government’s cruel treatment of refugees this election
Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care urges voters to support parties that will reinstate refugee health coverage
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Business Schools Breed Unethical Businessmen
An ethicist explains why the Volkswagen scandal didn't shock him.
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Lying for science
Psychologists used to manipulate and deceive their subjects with impunity. Did the end justify the means? By Antonio Melechi.
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Dignity in a Diverse, Decentered, and Digital Age
Imagine two worlds—one horrendous, the other hopeful, but both actual. By Thong Nguyen.
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