Category Research Ethics
Nothing about us without us: An Inuk reply to exploitive research
Julie Bull articulates the duty of researchers to ensure ethical and responsible conduct of research with Inuit in light of recent media attention regarding skin graft experiments that occurred on Inuit in the 1970s.
Conflicts of Interest: The case of Diclectin
Naila Ramji advocates for the importance of clinical trial transparency.
Confronting a manifest injustice: toward chimpanzee rights
Andrew Fenton reflects on Judge Fahey’s recent concurring opinion on the Nonhuman Rights Project’s efforts to get two captive chimpanzees to sanctuary.
Between Evidence & Advocacy in Public Engagement
Shelly Benjaminy and Anthony Traboulsee reflect on effective public engagement in brain research.
Philosophers’ Brief on Chimpanzee Personhood
Andrew Fenton and L. Syd M Johnson report on the recent public release of an amicus brief supporting chimpanzee personhood, created by 17 philosophers as a part of the Nonhuman Rights Project’s efforts to get two captive chimpanzees to a sanctuary.
An Animal Bioethicist in Seattle
Andrew Fenton voices concerns about invisible unnecessary harm to non-human animals and a cost of ethical inconsistency.
Human genome editing: We should all have a say
Françoise Baylis stresses that decisions about the modification of the human germline should not be made without broad societal consultation.
