Should We Revise Bioethics Laws, and at What Speed?
Unlike the moral rules, the major laws of bioethics anticipate their own senescence because they must confront a permanent change.
Ethics or Scientific Integrity Committees: What’s the Difference?
Life in the laboratory is what is now referred to as scientific integrity, while the role of the scientist in the world is the ethic of rese
Anonymity, Confidentiality, Transparency: Which to Choose?
Despite the misdeeds of opacity, total transparency is harmful when people are being judged. Anonymity is also not desirable, one can not de
Polite Reply to Collective Mail
The multiplication of useless solicitations leads to a cognitive saturation which handicaps our capacities of reaction. In our information s
The Science between Trust and Mistrust
The only antidote to the systematic doubt of the scientist is in fact doubt itself! Even though the sciences arise from a movement of concer
Funding Research by Project
The issue of the purpose of project funding for research teams needs to be clarified, otherwise all sorts of abuses could occur, for example
The Tricky Question of Conflicts of Interest in Research
In any event, everything possible needs to be done to avoid the disastrous effects of conflicts of interest. Sometimes however, the procedur
Controversial Software Attempts to Read Homosexuality on Faces
The authors claim that the program is able to automatically recognise a homosexual from facial features with more than 91% accuracy. This id
Adolescents and Jihadists
Young radicalised girls are a new thing in the jihadist world. Often model students, from the middle classes and converted, they are overtur
My Assistant, the Robot
Given some studies and the way artificial intelligence is presented in some of the media, concern about jobs in the future is growing. Wrong
