By Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford; Christopher Gyngell, The University of Melbourne, and Tsutomu Sawai, Hiroshima University Children, even some who are too young for school, know you can’t make a baby without sperm and an egg. But a team of researchers in Israel have…
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty addresses the merger of public health, surveillance tech and policing powers and says it must be stopped. All statistics are headed in the wrong direction and even insurance companies are reporting an unprecedented 40 percent rise in death rates. If “war is…
By Dylan Charles It is very tempting to want to believe that the response to covid is rooted in altruism, logic, cool-headedness and reason. After all, who wants to believe that they are being manipulated? For almost a decade I’ve been publishing articles on on…
By Elias Marat For the first time, scientists have created embryos in a lab that contain the cells of both humans and monkeys. Scientists hope that by creating chimeric embryos – embryos containing cells from two distinct species – they might be able to create…
By Gilbert Berdine, MD The post-covid-19 world is a surrealistic nightmare. Businesses have been shut down arbitrarily without any evidence that these shutdowns save any lives. Tens of millions of Americans have become unemployed due to these shutdowns. There are already demands for mandatory covid-19…
By Tabitha Alloway “You don’t need a mask.” “Everyone needs to wear a mask.” “Asymptomatic spreaders are the real problem.” “No wait, it doesn’t look like asymptomatic carriers are spreading it.” “Coronavirus will spread at protests… unless they’re protests over the death of George Floyd.”…
Op-Ed by Arjun Walia The Facts: Despite government regulations and ethical issues, there are powerful corporate interests involved in the development and patenting of genetic editing of life forms. Reflect On: Human advancements in biotechnology as well as technology will only be plausible and useful…
By Dagny Taggart Scientists seem to be crossing a lot of boundaries as of late, which begs the question: Just because they can do something, does it mean they should? Advances in brain-related technology are reaching dystopian levels. Scientists recently developed the ability to predict…
By Elias Marat A team of Russian and Korean scientists in the Siberian region of Yakutsk has managed to salvage pristine samples of liquid blood from the heart of an ancient 42,000-year-old horse that was preserved in permafrost. Their goal? To eventually gather the cells…
By Janna Thompson, La Trobe University A second woman is said to be pregnant with a gene-edited baby in China, according to reports this year. It follows revelations last November that gene-edited twins had been born, which caused much debate. One of the fears expressed…
