by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 4, 2021 | Pulse
January 2021 Pulse On the 24 February 2020, BBC reported that the Canadian government has put forward a Bill to expand the scope of its current laws on assisted suicide to include people who are not terminally ill. If passed by Parliament, the new law will create a...
by Dr Roland Chia | Dec 21, 2020 | Pulse
December 2020 Pulse One of the most interesting books I’ve read about the irrational fascination that leftist intellectuals have for tyrants and terrorists is Jamie Glazov’s United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror (2009). With impeccable research...
by Dr Roland Chia | Dec 7, 2020 | Pulse
December 2020 Pulse In December 2000, the Singapore Cabinet formed the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) at the initiative of the then-Deputy Prime Minister Dr Tony Tan. The BAC is an independent national advisory body responsible for examining the ethical, legal and...
by Dr Roland Chia | Nov 16, 2020 | Pulse
November 2020 Pulse One of the freedoms that Western democratic societies cherish and are determined to defend is the freedom of speech or expression. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights articulates the right to the freedom of expression thus:...
by Dr Roland Chia | Nov 2, 2020 | Pulse
November 2020 Pulse In August 2019, The Guardian reported that a team of researchers led by Prof Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte from the Salk Institute in the US has produced monkey-human chimeras by combining the cells of the two species. The exact nature of the...
by Dr Roland Chia | Oct 19, 2020 | Pulse
October 2020 Pulse The restrictions imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, including the paralysing lockdown mandated by countries around the world, have exponentially increased our dependence on technology. Board meetings, concerts, seminars, lectures, cooking and...
