The Latest Breaking News from Ethics

ICMR Bioethics Unit has proposed a consensus policy statement to introduce Controlled Human Infection Studies (CHIS) in India, which involves exposing healthy volunteers to pathogens in a controlled environment. The document addresses ethical concerns and outlines potential benefits, such as accelerating the development of novel medical interventions, improved pandemic preparedness,…

A public ET message could initiate cascading events, including military actions to corporate resource mining

Ethics allegations have been raised against Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Sonia Sotomayor. Both sides have retreated into whataboutism.

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won’t have to fight an ethics lawsuit over his challenge to the 2020 presidential election results until after his impeachment trial.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill Thursday that would place new transparency rules on Supreme Court filings, place new recusal standards on the justices and require the Supreme Court to adopt a code of ethics.

Labour’s Angela Rayner said the changes ‘barely scratch the surface’ of the reforms required.

Jurassic Park, the 1993 film about dinosaurs, is a cultural tour de force. Not only did the film herald a new era in computer-generated movie effects, it also revived the field of paleontology. And if that wasn’t enough, it raised questions about the ethics of DNA research.

"AI is not an existential threat to humanity."

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill that would set new ethics rules for the Supreme Court but enacting a law is unlikely.