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A little over a year ago, I attended a virtual conference called the “Nudges in Health Care Symposium.” For the uninitiated, the term “nudging” refers to the practice, via various mechanisms, of deliberately altering an individual’s choices, structuring her so-called “choice architecture” without her awareness. In doing so, it is intended as a way to allow individuals to make decisions that benefit them that they otherwise might not have made.

Science is always undertaken from a definite point of view, a new book concedes. But it enlarges our knowledge of the world through the interplay of different perspectives.

Climate-friendly sheep and salmon that eat less yet grow faster. Researchers are using genetic engineering to design animals for the livestock farming of the future.

Act now to ensure animal welfare is at the heart of plans to introduce genome editing into farmed animal breeding, says independent ethics body. The

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is calling on the Government to put animal welfare at the heart of plans to approve new breeding technologies in

Nuffield Council on Bioethics warns post-Brexit plan could be 'morally problematic' and that careful regulation of animal welfare is needed

The production of gene-edited livestock must be heavily regulated to protect animal welfare, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has warned. Using gene

The Philosophers Magazine Zebras, Bacteria and Asteroids Toby Friend on what’s real and whether whatever it is can be part of a unified science Two tenets are of significant concern to today’s philosophers of science: one continues to be that age-old idea of Scientific Realism, the other is a more contemporary assertion of the Metaphysical Unity toscience. Although the motivations for or against them a...