Rebuilding Trust in Science

Since before the pandemic we have been experiencing a breakdown in trust in science and health care. Explore the reasons for this crisis, with authors of a just-released Hastings Center special report on trust, who show a path forward to heal our fractured society. Transcript Trust Event With panelists Arthur Caplan, PhD, NYU Grossman School of...

What Is a ‘Serious Genetic Condition’?

Vardit Ravitsky, Ph.D., President and CEO of the Hastings Center, will deliver the keynote address, "What Is a 'Serious Genetic Condition'?," at the eighth annual reproductive ethics conference at the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. The controversies and challenges of reproductive ethics arise from new technologies, political...

Hastings Center Fellows Council Regional Colloquium Series

Keynote Featuring Professor Arthur L. Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine "Weighty Matters: The Ethics of Using Injectables To Fight Obesity And Overweight." Keynote (12pm)Workshop (1.15pm – 3.55 pm)Reception Celebrating Vardit Ravitsky (4pm) New York University Grossman School of Medicine, NYC...

Reflections on the Idea of Social and Behavioral Genetics

Basic research is ongoing into the genomics of complex human behaviors and social outcomes, from eating and sexual behaviors to “subjective sense of well-being” and “educational attainment.”  Although the people doing this research may work hard to articulate their benevolent intentions as well as seeking to conduct rigorous, reproducible, ethical research, they do so against...

In Science We Trust?

There’s a growing worldwide trend of distrust in science and medicine—a trend thrown into sharp relief by the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccination campaigns. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Watch our discussion of the pivotal issue of trust in science. How has the past influenced the distrust we’re seeing...

When Persons Facing Dementia Choose to Hasten Death: America’s Ethical, Legal, Medical and Social Landscape

Hastings Center senior research scholar Nancy Berlinger will give a talk entitled "When Persons Facing Dementia Choose to Hasten Death: America's Ethical, Legal, Medical and Social Landscape," at the 4th International Conference on End-of-Life Law, Policy, Ethics & Practice (ICEL4), at S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City