• OPINION

  Stopping needless animal abuse

  News, Peter Singer, Published on 23/07/2015

  » In May, Pope Francis released his historic encyclical, Laudato Si, or "Praise Be". He chose his papal name, he explains in the text, because he considers St Francis of Assisi to be "the example par excellence of care for the vulnerable and of an integral ecology lived out joyfully and authentically". His namesake showed that concern for nature is inseparable from justice for the poor, social commitment and peace within oneself.

• OPINION

  Pioneer's fallacies still relevant now

  News, Peter Singer, Published on 14/08/2015

  » In 1809, Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, set to work on The Book of Fallacies. His goal was to expose the fallacious arguments used to block reforms like the abolition of "rotten boroughs" -- electorates with so few electors that a powerful lord or landowner could effectively select the member of parliament, while newer cities like Manchester remained unrepresented.

• OPINION

  Climate change no 'hoax', Mr Trump

  News, Peter Singer, Published on 10/04/2017

  » The catastrophic outcome of last November's United States presidential election is now clear. President Donald Trump's indifference to the risk of climate change, and the actions he is taking because of that indifference, are likely to have consequences that dwarf the significance of his executive order on immigration, his nomination of an arch-conservative to the Supreme Court, and, should he manage to achieve it, his repeal of the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare").

• OPINION

  Is Paris accord unfair to America?

  News, Peter Singer, Published on 07/06/2017

  » When US President Donald Trump announced that the United States was withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, he justified the move by saying "the bottom line is that the Paris Accord is very unfair, at the highest level, to the United States". Is it?

• OPINION

  If you're buying oil from Saudi Arabia, it's time to stop

  News, Peter Singer, Published on 15/11/2018

  » The murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's Istanbul consulate on Oct 2 has focused attention on the Saudi regime, and especially on its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In large part, this is because Turkey's government has kept the episode in the international spotlight.

• OPINION

  When vaccination is a 'crime'

  Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 10/03/2021

  » On Dec 29 last year, Hasan Gokal, the medical director of the Covid-19 response team in Harris County, Texas (which includes Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States by population), was supervising the administration of the Moderna vaccine, mostly to emergency workers. The vaccine comes in vials containing 11 doses. A vial, once opened, expires in six hours and unused vaccine must then be thrown away.

• OPINION

  Don't be a bystander to mass famine

  Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 16/08/2022

  » In March 1964, The New York Times reported that 38 witnesses saw or heard a brutal, drawn-out, and ultimately fatal attack on a woman called Kitty Genovese, but none did anything to help her or even summoned the police. The report was later shown to be erroneous, but the "bystander effect" is real. As many psychology experiments have shown, an individual is less likely to come to the aid of another if they can see that other people who could help are not doing so.

• OPINION

  Do we share a childish sense of morality?

  Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 10/09/2022

  » Consider the following statements describing our moral judgements:

• OPINION

  Research ethics on non-human subjects 'lacking'

  Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 12/10/2022

  » 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.

• OPINION

  Who are the beneficiaries of 'free speech'?

  Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 10/11/2022

  » 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.

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