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Godwin’s Law Alive and Well
This is an old rant of mine I posted to Facebook back in March 2013, during my time in Edinburgh. Being not-totally-averse-to-a-bit-of-controversial-argument and with my connections to Germany and...
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The Mutant Olympics: Genetic Enhancement and Doping in Sports
Julian Savulescu, Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, has argued that “[g]enetic enhancement is not against the spirit of sport; it is the spirit of sport” [i] quite succinctly...
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Playing God(‘s Patent Lawyer): The Challenges of Patent Law in the Field of...
Below is a slightly adapted version of a final paper I wrote for the course Intellectual Property II during my LLM in Innovation, Technology and the Law at the University of Edinburgh. One of the major...
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Irrationality and Organ Donation
As I’m currently in the process of writing something a little more substantial about the ethics of donations, in particular donations connected with incentives, I found the assignment set this week by...
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Bioethics and Bad Reasoning: The Slippery Slope of Using Slippery Slope...
Slippery Slopes and Euthanasia A ‘slippery slope argument’ (SSA) is a particular style of argument which particularly raises my ire (a phrase I’ve always wanted an excuse to employ) as they are so...
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Does researching casual marijuana use cause brain abnormalities?
Originally posted on Bits of DNA:In reading the news yesterday I came across multiple reports claiming that even casually smoking marijuana can change your brain. I usually don’t pay much attention to...
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Coursera is Wonderful! But Don’t Just Take My Word For It
Any of you who have the misfortune of reading my blog regularly (i.e. more than once) might have noticed a bit of a trend, in that I tend to rather effusively extol the virtues of Coursera.org and the...
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Catholicism, Moral Conservatism and Crazy Irish Laws: Part 1 – Introduction...
I’m sure the title of this post will strike many of you as a bit controversial, as I do tend to try to keep my views on religion out of my academic arguments, unless of course they are particularly...
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Cloning Blue Crab Blood to Prevent Infections
I recently came across this rather interesting article (ominously titled The Blood Harvest) by Alexis C. Madrigal in The Atlantic from February of this year about horseshoe crabs and the use of their...
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Of Mice and Markets
I was going to go with “Morals, Mice, and Markets” as the title for this post, but I just couldn’t resist the rare chance at a weak Steinbeck pun. These morally relevant mouse markets I speak of are...
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Human-Animal Hybrids and Chimeras: What’s in a Name?
Things on the website have been rather quiet of late, though not for lack of interesting science and tech news. But rather I have been tied up with work projects for the last while, and am endeavoring...
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Do Cyborgs Dream of Electric Lawsuits? – Gikii 2015
I recently had the pleasure to be invited to give a talk at the wonderfully niche Gikii conference, organised by Andres Guadamuz (aka Technollama) and Lillian Edwards in Berlin this year. The event was...
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Human-Animal Hybrids and Chimeras: What’s in a Name?
Things on the website have been rather quiet of late, though not for lack of interesting science and tech news. But rather I have been tied up with work projects for the last while, and am endeavoring...
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