Lethal injections are not typically administered by doctors, given executions are incompatible with their oath to protect lives.
- Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University
- Honorary Fellow, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
Punishment for a crime shouldn’t extend to denying women’s fertility when they’re released from prison. Here’s why.
There are good reasons why we see AI chatbots as more than what they truly are.
Private use of AI porn may not be illegal, but it doesn’t make it morally right. Here’s why.
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping were recently caught discussing whether organ transplants could help a person live forever. The idea has scientific and ethical flaws.
ChatGPT and other AI writing tools can make researchers more productive – but quality control is essential.
The technology may be here sooner than we think. But we have so much to discuss first.
Pigs with human kidneys? Brain-powered computer chips? Science is creating new kinds of living things – and our moral understanding needs to catch up fast.
We all have a stake in life extension research, since we all age and are all slated to die. But one of the greatest risks it brings is the potential for social stagnation.
Although there are rules that govern animal research, they don’t answer one important question: when are the gains from research enough to justify the harms it may inflict?
A new biotech partnership could bring the first baby thylacine to life within 10 years. But de-extinction is controversial – should we even be doing this?
While the prospect of reviving extinct species has long been discussed, advances in genome editing have now brought such dreams close to reality.
Researchers made human-monkey chimeras, by adding human stem cells to monkey embryos. Some embryos were cultured for 19 days after fertilisation.
Science is creating new living matter – like stem cells grown to create brain tissues in the lab. With power comes responsibility and what matters is an ethical question, not a scientific one.
The DrinkWise posters are designed to highlight the risks of drinking during pregnancy. To do so effectively, the message needs to be clear and direct.
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