Convicted Civility

3 January 2022 Credo A refrain often heard in our world plagued with unceasing conflict is “let’s agree to disagree”. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, to agree to disagree is to decide “not to argue anymore about the difference in opinion”. It is a...

Woke

3 January 2022 Pulse Click here for the Chinese translation of this article. On August 9, 2014, an 18-year-old black man, Michael Brown, was shot by a white police officer Darren Wilson in the city of Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri. This case sparked an...

The Ethics of Animal-to-Human Transplant

December 2021 Pulse On October 20, 2021, The Straits Times reported that for the first time, ‘a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient’s immune system’. This may signal a significant breakthrough in...