Category Science and Technology

Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines? Nonsense Proposals

February 9, 2021 · by · in Canada, Community, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Law & Policy, Pandemic, Pharmaceuticals, Privacy and Trust, Public Health, Science and Technology, Social Justice, Vaccine, vulnerability

Juan Gérvas points out that we do not have enough data about the prevention of virus transmission to justify mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for health care workers.

COVID-19 Vaccine Certification: A Contentious Proposal

January 8, 2021 · by · in Canada, Community, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Law & Policy, Pandemic, Pharmaceuticals, Science and Technology, Social Justice, Vaccine, vulnerability

Françoise Baylis highlights some of the limitations of COVID-19 vaccine certificates.

The coronavirus vaccines are here. Now what?

December 18, 2020 · by · in Canada, Community, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Inclusivity, Law & Policy, Long-Term Care, Pandemic, Pharmaceuticals, Science and Technology, Social Justice, vulnerability

Maya J. Goldenberg prepares us for the reality that an effective vaccine may stop the pathogen, but it will not establish health.

Heritable Human Genome Editing? It May Never Be Safe

December 4, 2020 · by · in Assisted Reproduction, Clinical Ethics, CRISPR, Disability, Law & Policy, Public Health, Reproduction, Research Ethics, Science and Technology

Katie Hasson recounts the recent failures to edit the human genome.

COVID-19 animal research reveals ethical shortcomings

September 25, 2020 · by · in Animal Research, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Law & Policy, Pandemic, Research Ethics, Science and Technology, Vaccine, vulnerability

Andrew Fenton and L. Syd M Johnson outline several ethical issues with nonhuman animal research revealed by COVID-19 research

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