Links to Current Events, News, and Hot Topics
Below, you will find links to news articles I have found that have to do with an ethical topic. Some articles may require you to create an account to view. If you are genuinely interested in an article, but can’t access it, please contact me and I will help you.
“At their high-profile trials decades ago – one of the first cases to be televised – the brothers did not deny killing their parents. However, they argued they should not be convicted because they acted in self-defense after enduring a lifetime of physical and sexual abuse by their father.”
“For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers.”
Title: TikTok executives know about app’s effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege
Description: In communications newly revealed, TikTok executives discuss being aware of the harms caused by their app. TikTok officials were warned of the app’s dangers to minors.
Source URL: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s1-27676/tiktok-redacted-documents-in-teen-safety-lawsuit-revealed
Last week, Khelif became the center of an Olympic controversy when Italian boxer Angela Carini retired from their match after just 46 seconds, suggesting the force of Khelif’s punches was overwhelming. The bout’s surprising end brought attention to Khelif’s disqualification from the 2023 world championships after the International Boxing Association (IBA) said she failed a chromosome test and was not eligible to compete against women.
Title: The Olympic boxing controversy.
Description: Plus, a reader question about Kamala Harris's race.
Source URL: https://www.readtangle.com/the-olympic-boxing-controversy-imane-khelif/
Is a digital-ID proposal meant to protect consumers or the Communist Party?
Title: China’s new plan for tracking people online
Description: Is a digital-ID proposal meant to protect consumers or the Communist Party?
Source URL: https://www.economist.com/china/2024/08/08/chinas-new-plan-for-tracking-people-online
Is it worth it to release a convicted Russian assassin in order to free an American journalist? You might also want to consider this article from 2022, when the USA released a Russian arms dealer (sometimes called “the merchant of death”) for WNBA star Brittney Griner.
Title: The prisoner swap with Russia.
Description: Plus, a question about the data on immigration hearings.
Source URL: https://www.readtangle.com/the-prisoner-swap-with-russia-gershkovich/
One autumn day in 2020 Patrick Doherty was walking his dog up a steep mountain in County Donegal, Ireland, when he noticed he was, unusually for him, running out of breath. The eventual diagnosis was terrifying: amyloidosis, a rare genetic disease that caused a protein, amyloid, to build up in his organs and tissues. The prognosis was even worse: it would cause him years of pain until it finally killed him. In the face of such terrible fortune, though, Mr Doherty had a stroke of luck. He was able to join a trial of a new medical therapy and, with just a single injection, was apparently cured. Now, he continues to walk his dog up that steep mountain in County Donegal every week.
See further resources on this topic on my genetic engineering page.
Title: Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed
Description: The promising treatments still face technical and economic hurdles, though
For the first time we are aware of, genetically engineered humans have been created. What are the implications? See further resources on this topic on my genetic engineering page.
Title: The Transformative, Alarming Power of Gene Editing
Description: A rogue scientist showed that CRISPR gives humans the ability to transform ourselves. But should we?
Source URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/11/the-transformative-alarming-power-of-gene-editing
This is an interesting Youtube video over the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, posted 8 months before the current Israel-Hamas conflit.
Tangle News has a good early take on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Title: The attacks on Israel, and the response.
Description: The Israel-Palestine conflict has unraveled.
Source URL: https://www.readtangle.com/israel-attacks-hamas-palestine-war/
Do we have free will?
Title: Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will
Description: You may think you chose to read this, but Stanford scientist Robert Sapolsky would disagree. He says virtually all human behavior is beyond our conscious control.
A fascinating counter-narrative to popular notions of mental health.