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EXCLUSIVE: Dr Mihnea Capraru, from Kazakhstan, argued it is morally wrong for employers to harass staff into receiving what he describes as a 'medical penetration'.
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How is it that a man who has banned 83 million people from Twitter can freely use the platform to post his messages denigrating women and supporting the brutal attack on the writer Salman Rushdie? I'm referring to the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose government is killing young women who want to be able to show their hair in public.
EXCL: Should 'otherkin' and trans-abled be offered the same rights to self-identity as transgender people? This is the controversial question posed in an academic journal.
In August, Springer Nature, the publisher of 3,000 academic journals, including the "Nature" portfolio of the world's most influential science journals, announced new ethics guidance for its editors, addressing the balance between academic freedom and the risk that publication of some research will harm specific groups of humans. The guidance also mentions, though much more briefly, research using animals.