Ethics and Innovation

I’m delighted to have contributed to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 10th anniversary publication with a chapter on “Ethical Dilemmas in International Organizations”, alongside contributions from Onora O’Neill, Peter Singer and Peter Singer.

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Covid sceptics make a basic philosophical mistake

Where’s the evidence? After years in which respect for science and reason has been in decline, it should be encouraging to hear this question being doggedly asked. And yet the demand for evidence is being used by those sceptical of measures scientists generally support to bring the virus under control: vaccines, lockdowns, masks. Ironically, the scientists’ mantra is now being used against them. How did this happen?

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