Increasingly, I’m asked to advise and assist with the problem of predatory journals. While it’s probably only an annoying nuisance to many in the developed world, the increasing number of […]
Medical ethics
Richard Smith: What is RRI and was I the wrong Richard Smith?
“I’d like to introduce Richard Smith, who is professor of philosophy at Durham University, an expert on epistemology, and chair of several European committees, who will speak on conflict of […]
Christopher Burns-Cox: The Assisted Dying Bill
It does look as if most people now at last want to enable suffering persons of a sound mind and with less than six months to live to be helped to […]
Sarah Welsh: Egg freezing—does this “insurance policy” offer false hope?
Egg freezing is an up and coming trend among hopeful future mothers—hailed as “the new 30th birthday present for British women,” in a recent Telegraph article. Egg freezing allows women with […]
Liz Wager: Research integrity—how can institutions balance discipline and support?
The suicide of Yoshiki Sasai is both tragic and shocking. Sasai was deputy director of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, and a co-author of reports in Nature on the […]
Pranab Chatterjee: Discussing ethics in HIV/AIDS research in India
On 23 and 24 December 2013, the Department of AIDS Control (DAC), India, in collaboration with the CDC and FHI360 organised a capacity building workshop on ethics in HIV/AIDS research […]