Conference: Challenging Robotic Warfare and Social Control

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What Is Up With the FDA? What Comes Next?

By Pete Shanks | 07.18.2024

Biopolitical Times

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to encourage effective medical advances while also ensuring that patients and research subjects are protected. This dual mandate demands tricky judgment calls that are made more difficult by outside pressures of several kinds, political, judicial, and especially commercial. This April story at Bloomberg examines one deeply troubling pattern of regulatory capture:

Americans Are Paying Billions to Take Drugs That Don’t Work
Companies are increasingly...

Stem Cells

Netflix's 'Man With 1000 Kids' puts a spotlight on the lack of international regulations for sperm donors

By Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News | 07.09.2024

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A Netflix docuseries has put a spotlight on the unregulated world of sperm donation, particularly the lack of stopgap measures that might prevent donors who have been banned by one country from simply going elsewhere to donate more.

Released earlier...

Assisted Reproduction

RNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF

By Amanda Becker and Shefali Luthra, The 19th | 07.08.2024

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Republicans have adopted a slate of policy positions ahead of next week’s convention that does not call for a federal legislative abortion ban, but opens the door to establishing fetal personhood.

The Republican...

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Precious DNA

By Isabelle Bartram | 07.17.2024

Biopolitical Times

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Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority in China, are mainly located in the autonomous region of Xinjiang. The Chinese government has pursued an aggressive settlement policy in this region since 1949, with the percentage of Han Chinese in the region increasing from five to forty percent in the second half of the 20th century. Since 2014, the Uyghurs have been subject to persecution and re-education – various sources have estimated that at least one million...

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Conference: Challenging Robotic Warfare and Social Control

Conference: Challenging Robotic Warfare and Social Control

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