Choosing Smart Embryos Isn't Immoral
It would be deeply immoral to require parents to select for particular traits, but it is also wrong to deny them the chance to make life easier for their children.
Fertility
Should We Be Worried About How Gene-Edited Kids Will Affect Future Generations?
A new international commission will consider the pros and cons of human genome editing.
U.S. Baby Bust Fears Inspire a Radical Policy Proposal
Is the solution a "fertility dividend" that makes a portion of a person's Social Security benefit dependent on each of their offspring's earnings?
Is Gene-Editing Babies Now 'Monstrously Immoral'?
Flinging around such terms is not helpful and does not advance the debate.
First Genome-Edited Babies?
If it's safe, then it's ethical. No need for a global moratorium.
U.S. Total Fertility Rates Continue To Fall
Falling fertility means that folks now have increasing power to choose the number of children that they wish to have.
Should the Government Ban Parents Using IVF from Picking Their Kid's Eye Color?
There is no compelling ethical reason to limit this exercise of reproductive liberty.
3 Statistics That Will Make You Smarter and Happier
If you read Reason you already know these three pieces of good news about global trends.
Did Leaded Gasoline Contribute to the U.S. Baby Bust?
Maybe, but it's more likely that Americans chose to have fewer kids.
Hooray! U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to 40-Year Low
Exercising reproductive freedom is a good thing.
The Coming Century of Environmental Renewal
A new article in BioScience vindicates The End of Doom.
Don't Overregulate CRISPR Genome Editing
"Governments should follow the principle of regulatory parsimony," two bioethicists argue.
The Amazing and Abundant Future
Ronald Bailey's 11-minute talk at Voice & Exit on the awesome 21st century.
High School Students Are Very Worried About Overpopulation. They Shouldn't Be.
New report claims U.S. overpopulation will blight their futures.
Don't Freak Out About Falling Fertility Rates
There's an easy way to make more Americans: immigration.
Should the Government Try to Bribe You Into Having More Babies?
Increased wealth and technological progress give people greater liberty to decide when, how, with whom, and if they want to reproduce.
Breakthrough: Human Embryos Successfully and Safely Gene-Edited
Anti-designer baby bioethicists call for "an immediate global ban."
First Gene-Edited Human Embryos in the U.S.
Breakthrough that could cure genetic diseases before embryos are implanted in their mothers' wombs.
Overpopulation Scaremongering Never Gets Old
Neo-Malthusianism in the Sunday New York Times
Should the Government Limit What Women Can Learn from Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing?
Bioethicists in Britain say yes. But there are no such limits in the U.S. yet.
Skin Cells Into Babies: Bioethicists Freakout Again
Will most babies be created using in vitro gametogenesis in 40 years?
Of Artificial Mice and Men Embryos
Creation of artificial mouse embryos provokes bioethical handwringing about designer babies
There's Never Been A Better Time to Be Alive
Ronald Bailey reviews Johan Norberg's new book celebrating Progress
Ten Reasons to Look Foward to the Future: A Review of Progress by Johan Norberg
There's never been a better time to be alive
First 'Three Parent' Baby Born in Mexico
Due to FDA ban parents must resort to treatments abroad in order to have a healthy baby
'Designer Baby' Scaremongering Never Gets Old, Does It?
Swedish researcher denounced by bioconservatives for using CRISPR genome-editing on human embryos
Designer Babies and Human Enhancement: Ronald Bailey Lectures in Moscow
Also most babies will be created using skin cells and the bioethics of radical life extension
More Good News: U.S. Teen Birth Rate Continues to Fall
U.S. total fertility rate close to lowest ever too
Human-Animal Chimeras Are O.K., Argues Ronald Bailey on NPR's Airtalk
National Institutes of Health bioethicists agree with me and lift research moratorium
Mom and Dad and Mom Know Best
Three-parent babies are now possible. Congress should get out of the way.
First U.S. Uterus Transplant—Bioethicists Wring Hands
Why should not men be eligible for uterine transplants?
Donald Trump on Science
Comparing his scores on seven science policy topics to Cruz, Rubio, and Bush
Will Climate Change Ruin Your Sex Life?
Global warming could cool sexual passions and reduce birth rates.
Genetically Modifying Human Embryos Is OK, Say U.K. Regulators
Researchers will use CRISPR gene-editing technique to explore how human embryos develop.
CRISPR Gene-Editing Is Scientific "Breakthrough of the Year"
"If scientists can dream of a genetic manipulation, CRISPR can now make it happen"
Ronald Bailey Outlines Solution to Climate Change Over at Scientific American
Richer is more climate-friendly, especially for developing countries.
Will Climate Change Ruin Your Sex Life?
Global warming will cool sexual passion, says new study
China Drops Oppressive One-Child Policy: Too Late to Avoid Demographic Implosion
Reproductive central planning works as badly as economic central planning
Secret? Global Poverty Has Been Falling—The End of Doom
New York Times columnist reveals today the "secret" that my new book documents.
Venessa Hughes of Buffalo, NY Hates The End of Doom, But You Might Like It
Library Journal reviews my new book, published today.
If People Could Genetically Modify Their Children to Be Smarter, Would They? Hell, Yes!
So argues Eugene Volokh, albeit with a bit more subtlety.
Sperm Apocalypse: Are You Just A Quarter of the Man Your Father Was?
Danish researcher claims that plastics and cosmetics are emasculating.
Gene-Editing Human Embryos Is Ethical
Bioethicists and scientists who say otherwise are wrong.
Who Owns Frozen Human Embryos?: Nick Loeb vs. Sofia Vergara
A contract is a contract, but a more generous spirit might relent
Nobel Laureates Call For Halting Scientific and Ethical Progress
Permissionless innovation works best for both scientific and moral progress.
Three Parent Babies Approved By British Parliament. Hooray!
Naturally the usual bioluddites are eager to stop progress.
