Brendan Foht

The New Strain: How Bad Is It?

A Q&A for the frazzled — and a case for action

Just a New York Problem?

Comparing Covid-19 to leading causes of death, state by state

Abortion and the Coronavirus Vaccine

Why we need an option that will be morally acceptable to all Americans

Science as Scorekeeping

On Covid-19, America’s political leaders need to stop acting like spectators and get in the game.

Not as Deadly as We Thought?

Why fighting about Covid-19’s fatality rate is a distraction

Not Like the Flu, Not Like Car Crashes, Not Like…

It’s about the spike.

I’m Young and Healthy. If I Get Coronavirus, Will I Be Fine?

Covid-19’s low death rate conceals bigger dangers.

America’s Pandemic Data Gap

The problem isn’t just testing — we still know far too little about what we already know.

The New Kinship Engineering

Three-parent babies are being created not to prevent disease but to manufacture genetic relationships.

While Bioethics Fiddles

As baby manufacturing draws near, academic ethicists play frivolous games

Responsible Frankensteins?

The trouble with the idea that we can play God, but ethically

Human Gene Editing Arrives in America

Reflections on the Instrumentalization of Human Life

On the Shelf

Short reviews of books on the opioid epidemic, the crisis of authority, Silicon Valley, the “new eugenics,” and more

Gene Editing: New Technology, Old Moral Questions

On using CRISPR to help patients and design our descendants

Two Approaches to Climate Action

Why we need both technological innovation and moral persuasion

Socially Just Science

First Thoughts on Germline Engineering

The Record of Our “Scientist-in-Chief”

Bioethics Without Ethics

Synthetic Bioethics

President Obama’s Bioethics Commission: Policy without Philosophy?