Bioethics - Quillette (Page 2)

Patient Safety and the Medical Omerta

The sharp decline in popularity of the Catholic Church shows how difficult it is for public trust to be regained once power is abused—if the medical profession does not take its responsibility to protect patients more seriously it risks losing this trust.

Habib Rahman

15 Sep 2020 · 11 min read

The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism

By 2014, Homo sapiens had, by the reckoning of the World Wildlife Fund, destroyed an incredible 60 percent of the wild mammal, bird, reptile, and fish populations that were in existence as recently as 1970.

Baz Edmeades

6 Sep 2020 · 10 min read

Moving Away from Meat Means Welcoming the New 'Flexitarians'

Even prior to the pandemic, Barclays was predicting that the alternative-meat industry could grow ten-fold by the end of the next decade.

Ari David Blaff

29 May 2020 · 6 min read

Human Challenge Trials—A Coronavirus Taboo

If we can overcome the taboos surrounding HCTs, they can become a game changer in combating the coronavirus and limiting its ruinous effects on countless lives.

William Wiebe

1 May 2020 · 10 min read

Candace Owens Is Dangerously Misinformed about Vaccines

Ever wonder why a man that builds computers, both predicted the pandemic two months before it happened, is suddenly featured on the news every day instilling fear into hearts of Americans, and is now demanding that nothing be reopened until vaccines are mandated?

Matt Johnson

20 Apr 2020 · 9 min read

The Complicated Science of a Medically Assisted Death

Physicians started to prepare families for the possibility of a delayed death.

Anita Hannig

18 Mar 2020 · 12 min read

An Alternative Feminist Perspective on Abortion

The fight to enshrine the right to unrestricted abortion in law is based on ideological feminism’s two main premises: victimization and what I call “undifferentiation.”

Silvia G. Poratelli

26 Feb 2020 · 12 min read

Peter Singer and the Narrowing of Discourse

The implications of this narrowing of discourse for public debate and the exploration of ideas are dire, and reflect a growing surrender to intolerance at the expense of rational discussion and analysis.

Ross Stitt

24 Feb 2020 · 6 min read

How CRISPR-Enabled Gene Editing Could Change Our World: A Huntington's Disease Case Study

Because Huntington’s disease is caused by a single gene mutation, it is a prime early target for clinical trials involving somatic cell genome editing.

Françoise Baylis

18 Dec 2019 · 9 min read

I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn't Popular

The U.S. abortion debate has raged for generations, and remains divisive to this day.

Steve Jacobs

16 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

Choosing a Good Death

There are many false hopes out there that claim to be treatments and cures.

Mark Taubert

28 Jul 2019 · 7 min read

How Prophetic Was Gattaca?

Gattaca was prophetic, but not quite in the way Niccol intended.

George Schifini

8 Jul 2019 · 5 min read

'The Guarded Gate' Review: Elites and Their Eugenics Projects

The sordid and shameful history of eugenics in the U.S. should be better known, as should the role of another prominent American institution that was central to the development of eugenics ideology.

Jack B. Nimble

17 Jun 2019 · 15 min read

Rethinking Abortion Advocacy

Arbitrary doesn’t mean random and it doesn’t mean cruel.

Coleman Hughes

21 May 2019 · 8 min read