BioEdge

BioEdge is a weekly newsletter that focuses on the latest developments in bioethical topics. Although it originates from the Southern Hemisphere, its reach is global. This independent publication is created and managed by a team of dedicated volunteers, with funding from its supporters and contributors. BioEdge is published by the New Media Foundation, which also runs MercatorNet, a website dedicated to upholding human dignity.

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BioEdge has closed its doors

1 month ago | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

After 23 years, BioEdge ceased published in May 2024. Not that there isn’t lots to report on and talk about, but our resources proved insufficient to move forward in an increasingly competitive environment. We began publication in 2001, smack in the middle of the controversy over embryonic stem cells. The mainstream media was full of news about promising new developments — based mostly on press releases from scientists working with human embryos.
Owner of castration website in UK found guilty of grievous bodily harm

May 8, 2024 | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

“Enhancement” normally connotes adding powers beyond normal human functioning. However, there are dark kinds of enhancement which remove them. A Norwegian national living in England has just been found guilty of several counts of grievous bodily harm for running a castration website catering for men who want to be “nullos” – males without genitals. Marius Gustavson, 46, and others carried out many mutilations through his “eunuch-maker” site, which had about 23,000 subscribers around the world.
How liberal are American bioethicists?

May 8, 2024 | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

There is growing acknowledgement of the fact that the backgrounds, ideas, and politics of American academics are out of step with the backgrounds, ideas and politics of the American public. “Tenured and tenure-track college professors are drawn from a narrow and idiosyncratic slice of society,” writes Musa al-Gharbi, a journalism professor at Stony Brook University.
Day: May 9, 2024

May 8, 2024 | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

There is growing acknowledgement of the fact that the backgrounds, ideas, and politics of American academics are out of step with the backgrounds, ideas and...
3 sperm donors from same family in Quebec have sired 600 children

May 8, 2024 | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

Three men in Quebec from the same family have fathered more than 600 children by offering free sperm on the internet. A documentary by Noovo Info, a Quebec news outlet said that they posted ads on Facebook – “an online ‘parallel universe’ of free sperm donation not regulated by Health Canada”. Noovo Info initially investigated reports that a couple of men from the same family were giving sperm away.
Doctors can be socialized to cooperate in morally despicable evil, says bioethicist

May 8, 2024 | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

Bioethicist Carl Elliott relishes stirring up fellow bioethicists and the medical profession. In his latest book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No, he examines the role of whistleblowers in uncovering medical scandals. He knows from experience. He fought for years to get his own institution, the University of Minnesota, to acknowledge its role in the suicide of a man in an industry-funded clinical trial of antipsychotic drugs.
American IVF clinics are happily offering sex selection

May 8, 2024 | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

The United States is one of the few countries where IVF sex selection is legal – and it is a US$500 million market, according to a provocative feature in Slate. One of the leading practitioners, Dr Jeffrey Steinberg, of the Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles, says that its potential is unlimited. “The market is the size of the human race.”Sex selection used to be controversial.
Missouri man killed wife because he couldn’t afford her medical bills

May 8, 2024 | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

A 75-year-old Missouri man has been charged with the murder of his wife after allegedly strangling her in a hospital bed because he could not care for her properly or pay her medical bills. Police say that Ronnie Wiggs visited his wife Ellen earlier this month. She was in hospital to change the port for her dialysis treatment. About an hour later, hospital staff were called to the room of the 72-year-old woman after an apparent cardiac arrest. She was unresponsive and later found to be brain dead.
World Medical Association calls for a bilateral ceasefire in Gaza

May 1, 2024 | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

The World Medical Association has called for a bilateral ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution was initiated by the British Medical Association. Dr Lujain AlQodmani, the Kuwaiti president of the WMA, declared that: “WMA is demanding a bilateral, negotiated, and sustainable ceasefire in order to protect all civilians, secure the release and safe passage of all hostages and to allow the transfer of humanitarian aid for all.
Day: May 2, 2024

May 1, 2024 | bioedge.org | Michael Cook

A Texas anaesthetist has been convicted on charges of injecting patients' IV bags with dangerous drugs, which led to the death of a co-worker and several cardiac emergencies. On April 12, 60-year-old Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr was found guilty of four counts of tampering with consumer products resulting in serious bodily injury, one count of tampering with a consumer product and five counts of intentional adulteration of a drug. He had been arrested in 2022.