November 14, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Professional journal articles, reports, and policies are arguably our primary written products, since the main job in bioethics is to help clinicians and others navigate ethical challenges in their work. But we also write for the public, … Read More
November 11, 2025
(MedPage Today) – A review of the new film and a look at its public health relevance today The film does a commendable job laying out the history of what was a complicated and risky prosecution. The crimes were so … Read More
November 7, 2025
(NPR) – For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life’s work, but the secret of life itself. Over his long and storied career, Watson arguably did more than any other scientist to transform a once-obscure biological molecule, … Read More
October 29, 2025
(Wired) – In recent times, there have been two techno-religious awakenings. Here comes the third? To recap: If, over the past few decades, tech became the new religion, and then religion became the religion, you could say that AI is … Read More
October 15, 2025
(CT) – Study author praises staff members who “stay where their presence matters most.” A new study is shedding light on a rarely researched area: faith-based health care in low-resource settings. The study, published in JAMA Surgery, found dramatically lower … Read More
October 15, 2025
(BBC) – The world’s first IVF baby has given her backing to an international fertility care campaign. Louise Brown, 47, from Bristol, was the first in the world to be born via in vitro fertilisation (IVF) at Oldham General Hospital … Read More
October 13, 2025
(Aeon) – The convergence of singular talent and profound disability confounded scientists eager to place humans into neat categories To use the language of the 19th century, how could a person be at once both a ‘genius’ and an ‘idiot’? … Read More
October 9, 2025
(YouTube) – “This does not have to be our destiny.” Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology Tristan Harris sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss how AI has already disrupted the workforce as current iterations of the technology have … Read More
October 3, 2025
(CT) – A tragic accident jump-started my relationship with God. It also made me question his goodness. I spent a lot of time in the hospital wondering just what kind of God this was. I had no doubt that God … Read More
October 1, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Yoshua Bengio worries about AI’s capacity to deceive users in pursuit of its own goals. ‘The scenario in “2001: A Space Odyssey” is exactly like this,’ he says A little over two years ago, AI pioneer … Read More
September 30, 2025
(New York Times) – Robert Munsch wrote “The Paper Bag Princess,” “Love You Forever” and other classics by performing them over and over for kids. But his stories are slipping away. After 50 years of publishing, Munsch told me, his … Read More
September 26, 2025
(Longreads) – As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time. Last May, I found myself in the basement of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and … Read More
September 25, 2025
(Popular Science) – In 1907, Duncan MacDougall put dying patients on a scale. MacDougall hoped to discover whether a soul had mass with his macabre experiment, and if so, how much. His tests with patients, later known as the 21 … Read More
September 22, 2025
(Futurism) – People are far more likely to lie and cheat when they use AI for tasks, according to an eyebrow-raising new study in the journal Nature. “Using AI creates a convenient moral distance between people and their actions — … Read More
September 16, 2025
(New York Times) – The taboo against pork is deeply entrenched in both religious traditions. But the prohibition is not absolute. It has not always been entirely clear whether the religious prohibitions on pigs apply strictly to consumption, and neither … Read More
September 16, 2025
(New York Times) – Millions are turning to chatbots for guidance from on high. God works in mysterious ways — including through chatbots. At least, that’s what many people seem to think. On religious apps, tens of millions of people … Read More
September 9, 2025
(Comment) – In Bioethics After God: Morality, Culture, and Medicine, a misbegotten if earnest attempt to reframe the discipline from within the standpoint of traditional Christian morality, Mark J. Cherry argues that the root of this disagreement lies in the … Read More
September 3, 2025
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 50, no. 4, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 26, 2025
(Unherd) – As the historian Nadya Williams has shown, Greece and Rome offer proof that the parental quest for quality control over offspring is anything but new. Indeed, the popular stories of the era vigorously affirmed such practices. From Thetis … Read More
August 22, 2025
(Techradar) – GPT‑5 Pro impresses with its complex, layered response to prompts. The crown jewel of the GPT-5 rollout this month even made OpenAI CEO Sam Altman nervous with some of its responses. But you shouldn’t confuse brilliant algorithmic models … Read More
August 20, 2025
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 34, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 11, 2025
(CBS News) – James Robert III was born with no fingers on his left hand, and he is using his disability to fuel a passion to help others like him. The recent Louisiana State University graduate is pursuing a master’s degree in … Read More
August 7, 2025
(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) – Thirty years ago, as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, I wrote an essay on the 50th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In that piece (which can be found here), … Read More
August 6, 2025
(Wired) – First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. On August 6, 1945, the sky … Read More
August 5, 2025
(Nature) – Eighty years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, it is crucial that witness accounts are saved. Here is what one man told me. By the summer of 1945, after peace was declared in Europe, Japan was … Read More
