Medicine Andrew Bobker | 6 Oct 2017 Regulating Consumption and Canada’s Trans Fat Ban Canada's ban on trans fats in foods has a long and controversial history in the realm of addressing public health issues by regulating consumption.
Medicine Daniel Beck | 22 Sep 2017 Evaluating the Ethics of Paid Organ Donation Demand for organ donation far exceeds supply. Would allowing paid organ donation be an adequate solution?
Waymo and the Morality of Self-Driving Cars A future of self-driving cars seems closer than ever. But will our cars be designed to make ethical decisions for us? 20 Sep 2017 | Audrey Beale
Rules Versus Results in Vaccine Research A controversial vaccine study backed by Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel has led to a wide-ranging debate over the advantages and drawbacks of medical research ethics. 14 Sep 2017 | Meredith McFadden
Iceland Has Almost Eliminated Down Syndrome through Selective Abortion. Is That a Good Thing? Only one or two children are born with Down Syndrome in Iceland per year - not from chance, but due to selective abortion. 8 Sep 2017 | Daniel Beck
Less Healthcare, Less Regulation: Is Donald Trump Killing People? Critics allege that Donald Trump will directly be killing people by repealing Obamacare and encouraging deregulation. Do their claims hold up? 5 Sep 2017 | Jean Kazez
Democratic Equality and Free Speech in the Workplace Was it just for Google to fire James Damore after he wrote an insensitive memo on gender equality in the workplace? 4 Sep 2017 | Daniel Beck
The Google Memo and Bias in Science James Damore's controversial memo resulted in his firing from Google. But the debate it touched off is far from over. 29 Aug 2017 | Eric Walker
A Cross-Species Solution to Organ Donation? Xenotransplantation, or using animal tissues to solve medical problems in humans, is medically promising and even more ethically complex. 22 Aug 2017 | Kiara Goodwine
Growing Pains in the Rapid Rise of eSports As the audiences and prizes for eSports continue to grow, the sport faces key ethical and regulatory challenges in building its legitimacy. 9 Aug 2017 | Meredith McFadden
Why Conservatives Should Support Obamacare's Individual Mandate It's not just liberals. Conservatives have a compelling reason to support the Affordable Care Act's mandate that most people purchase health insurance. 7 Aug 2017 | Jean Kazez
Sex in the Age of Sex Robots Will artificially intelligent sex dolls mitigate crimes like rape and pedophilia, or make them worse? 1 Aug 2017 | Kiara Goodwine
Who Should Decide Charlie Gard's Fate? In the United Kingdom, a battle between a sick child's parents and the child's doctors raises questions of parental rights and responsibilities. 17 Jul 2017 | Daniel Beck
Diagnosis from a Distance: The Ethics of the Goldwater Rule Debates around psychiatrists' role in the political sphere have taken on new life under Donald Trump's presidency. 5 Jun 2017 | Daniel Beck
The Artificial Intelligence of Google's AlphaGo A computer's victory over a world champion of Go marks yet another advancement towards increasingly complex AI. 30 May 2017 | Meredith McFadden
Drug Addiction: Criminal Behavior or Public Health Crisis? How should societies balance the medical roots of addiction while addressing the social damage it causes? 11 May 2017 | Daniel Beck
A Trump-Themed People’s Climate March Intern Kiara Goodwine documents her experience at the 2017 People's Climate March. 9 May 2017 | Kiara Goodwine
Abortion and the Artificial Womb Developing artificial womb technologies stand to challenge some of the key questions around the abortion debate. 4 May 2017 | Meredith McFadden
Law Enforcement Surveillance and the Protection of Civil Liberties The FBI shut down a site spreading child pornography. Then, they kept the site running for two weeks to track those who visited. 3 May 2017 | Nathaniel Reed
A March for Science, or for Something Else? Held on Earth Day, the March for Science reveals the complex overlap between empirical science and political ideology. 2 May 2017 | Gabriel Andrade
Finding Consciousness in the Humble Honeybee On finding consciousness in bees and the subsequent ethical implications. 7 Apr 2017 | Eleanor Price
Respecting the Dead: The Case of Charles Byrne, the Irish Giant What does the examination of Charles Byrne's body after death, against his wishes, say about respecting the dead? 4 Apr 2017 | Daniel Beck
