What if the race to save the planet is harming the people who protect it? Indigenous advocate Galina Angarova exposes the hidden cost of the green energy transition, where the demand for minerals like nickel and lithium threatens to...

For transgender and nonbinary people, hormone replacement therapy has become one of the standards of care. But what is it, exactly? And what can people receiving the therapy expect? SciShow has the answers.

When you're getting medical treatment, or taking part in medical testing, privacy is important; strict laws limit what researchers can see and know about you. But what if your medical data could be used -- anonymously -- by anyone...

In the past, some experiments were run in scary and unethical ways. From using children to unknowing subjects, these five experiments left people affected for the rest of their lives.

From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention operated an extremely unethical medical experiment on the effects of outcomes of untreated syphilis. Hundreds of poor Black men...

Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, inventor Robert Fischell makes three wishes: redesigning a portable device that treats migraines, finding new cures for clinical depression and reforming the medical malpractice system.

A woman in sub-Saharan Africa is part of a cutting-edge HIV clinical trial -- but she can't afford a bus ticket to her health clinic, let alone the life-saving antiretrovirals she'll need. Boghuma Kabisen Titanji asks an important...

SciShow News explains the science behind a psychological experiment performed on about seven hundred thousand Facebook users, although none of them knew that they were participating.

Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must...

Afflicting nearly 1 in 10 Americans, syphilis was ravaging the U.S. in the 1930s. Many doctors believed syphilis affected Black and white patients differently, and the Public Health Service launched an experiment to investigate,...

Today we’re going to talk about ethical data collection. From the Tuskegee syphilis experiments and Henrietta Lacks’ HeLa cells to the horrifying experiments performed at Nazi concentration camps, many strides have been made from...

Elyn Saks, Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC, describes her own instrument for informed consent and how it differs from the MacArthur instrument.

Elyn Saks, Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC, describes her own instrument for informed consent and how it differs from the MacArthur instrument.

Dr. Tim Broach is our guest on this installment of the Healthcare Triage Podcast. Tim is a palliative care physician at Indiana University, an internist by training, and also an excellent Dungeon Master with a flair for storytelling....

Recently, the US adopted a law that ended some surprise billing for medical service. So what is surprise billing, and what does the new law look like?

At the 2020 WSJ Health Forum, Reporter Amy Dockser Marcus spoke with Hu-manity.co CEO Richie Etwaru and Kayte Spector-Bagdady, J.D., chief of Research Ethics at the U. of Michigan Medical School, about who owns-and can use-your genetic...

This film opens with Milgram's famous obedience experiments and the part they played in producing much stricter ethical guidelines for the protection of participants. The second part of the film looks at an on-going research project to...

This film looks at the nature and significance of ethical guidelines to the research process, using examples drawn from the work of Milgram, Watson and Sharif.

A Nova Scotia woman who has chosen a medically assisted death says Canada's new law is too extreme and unfair. She says she's now forced to make the difficult choice to end her life earlier than she'd like.

The panel weighs in on Pope Francis' recent comments on indigenous rights

Wolastoqey Grand Chief Ron Tremblay said Saint John has not consulted with Indigenous groups about a proposed expansion to the Spruce Lake Industrial Park, which Tremblay says would impact a biodiverse wetland in the area.

First Nations Leadership Council political executive Robert Phillips discusses his reaction to Premier David Eby's recent Northern B.C. mining announcement.

The Ontario government's controversial Bill 5 was passed with no consultation with First Nations, whose treaty lands are likely to be affected. Metro Morning spoke with an Anishinaabe scholar at the University of Toronto about the...

High Country News’ Nick Martin joins Reena Nina on The Recount Daily Pod. They delve into Indigenous People’s Day vs. Columbus Day, the Biden administration’s mixed record on indigenous communities, and the growing controversy over the...