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How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without ever charging him with a crime
The DEA Asset Forfeiture Program’s unofficial logo: “You make it, we’ll take it.”
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Eugenics, Ready or Not
Despite warnings by moral conservatives, advances in genetics and reproductive technology have created the conditions for a consumer-driven mass eugenics industry. Like it or not, science has is about to pose a slather of moral, ethical and societal dilemmas
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The Strange Case of the Forgotten Gitmo Detainee
Abu Zubaydah was tortured and waterboarded by the CIA—but his troubles really began when his case arrived in a D.C. courtroom.
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Philadelphia’s Osage Avenue police bombing, 30 years on: ‘This story is a parable’
On 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police moved in to arrest four members of a radical black liberation group called Move – but a bungled raid left 11 people dead. Alan Yuhas revisits the only aerial bombing carried out by police on US soil.
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When Brain Surgery Goes Wrong
In “Do No Harm,” one of Britain’s foremost neurosurgeons offers an anatomy of error.
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The Art of Asking for Human Organs
A medical ethicist argues that a small change to the way organ donation is discussed could go a long way towards solving the country’s shortage.
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Theorizing the Drone
What does the rise of the drone mean for justice, for the ethics of heroism, for psychology? Most important of all, who is dying and why?
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The vegan carnivore?
It’s made in a lab, no factory farms and no killing, but it’s still meat. Looks like we’ll need a whole new food ethics
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Antony Beevor: ‘There are things that are too horrific to put in a book’
The historian Antony Beevor tells Keith Lowe why his next book will confront one of the last taboos of the Second World War
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The hard problem: Tom Stoppard on the limits of what science can explain
Can evolution explain acts of kindness, and morality? We arranged a debate between a sceptical Tom Stoppard and the evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson. Stuart Jeffries acted as referee
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The US Military Euthanized or Abandoned Thousands of Their Own Canine Soldiers at the End of the Vietnam War
After the war ended, the US military marked their dogs as "expendable surplus equipment," leaving them to the South Vietnamese or euthanizing them.
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Parents up in arms over facial recognition software
Encinitas [California] parents are upset over facial recognition software on school-issued iPads.
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Are Only Humans Rightly Free? The Case for Animal Rights
Ahead of a possibly history ruling [today], a lawyer, a philosopher and a research scientist passionately explain why animals deserve the right to bodily freedom.
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Doctors’ Secret Language for Assisted Suicide
In most states, where euthanasia is illegal, physicians can offer only hints and euphemisms for patients to interpret.
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Death and Neglect at [New York’s] Rikers Women’s Jail
Medical lapses are endangering inmates at the Rose M. Singer Center.
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The Case of the Amazing Gay-Marriage Data
How a Graduate Student Reluctantly Uncovered a Huge Scientific Fraud
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Did a rich sports team owner jump the line for a liver transplant?
Eugene Melnyk isn't well-known in the United States. But he's a household name in Canada, where he has been the owner of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League since 2003. Since earlier this month, he has also been at the center of a remarkable and much-debated medical and ethical saga...
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Infected Monkeys
And Other Cautionary Tales From the Biolab
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Robotics: Ethics of artificial intelligence
Four leading researchers share their concerns and solutions for reducing societal risks from intelligent machines.
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Five Islands We Are Really Sick Of
An island stay sounds dreamy, but the reality of these five quarantine islands was often a nightmare.
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