OpinionOctober 17, 2024
Donald Trump Wants to Make Eugenics Great Again. Let’s Not
Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era
Stories by Arthur Caplan
Arthur Caplan is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics and founding head of the division of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s department of population health in New York City. He is the author or editor of 35 books and more than 860 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
OpinionJanuary 24, 2024
Ozempic and Other Weight-Loss Drugs Are Sparking a Risky New War on Obesity
The world has launched into an era of injectables not just to treat obesity but to manage weight. Is that all good news?
OpinionAugust 6, 2023
Hiroshima’s Anniversary Marks an Injustice Done to Blast Survivors
On this date 78 years ago, the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. Survivors involuntarily provided key medical data for years, without receiving any help
OpinionJanuary 28, 2021
It’s Time to Consider Vaccine Mandates in High-Risk Settings
Leaving vaccination to individual choice is unacceptably dangerous in places such as nursing homes, long-term care facilities and prisons
OpinionNovember 4, 2020
How We Can Avoid a ‘Twindemic’ of COVID and Flu
There’s no vaccine against the coronavirus yet, but we have influenza vaccines—and we need to use them
OpinionMarch 20, 2020
False Hope about Coronavirus Treatments
President Trump misspoke in a recent press conference: there are no approved treatments
Mind & BrainSeptember 1, 2010
What Comes Next: Experts Predict the Future
The flip side to every ending is a new beginning. We asked the visionary scientists on our advisory board what new trends will shape the decades to come