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DISCERNING TODAY'S SCIENCE HEADLINESPodcast Interviews and Episodes
- After IVF, Effective Altruism, and More: An Interview with Ari Shulman of The New Atlantis https://www.cbhd.org/podcast/after-ivf-effective-altruism-and-more-an-interview-with-ari-shulman-of-the-new-atlantis
- Dual-Use Technologies and Genetic Surveillance of Ethnic Minorities in China: An Interview with Yves Moreau https://www.cbhd.org/podcast/dual-use-technologies-and-genetic-surveillance-of-ethnic-minorities-in-china-an-interview-with-yves-moreau
- Barbenheimer & Bioethics Part II -- The Manhattan Project and the Seduction of Technology https://www.cbhd.org/podcast/barbenheimer-bioethics-part-ii---the-manhattan-project-and-the-seduction-of-technology
- Bioethics News: Artificial Intelligence, CAR-T Therapy, medical debt, and ways people in the church can support those going through a time of illness https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cbhd/episodes/Review-and-Comment-on-Bioethics-News-e2d5g8s/a-aantc91
CBHD Bioethics Podcast Latest Episodes
- Don’t Dieby The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity on October 21, 2025 at 12:12 pm
In this episode of The Bioethics podcast, CBHD Research Scholar Anna Vollema and CBHD Research Analyst Heather Zeiger join CBHD Executive Director Matthew Eppinette for a discussion of the Netflix documentary film Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. The film is a profile of Bryan Johnson, a tech entrepreneur who is devoting his fortune to extending his life through careful and detailed monitoring of various biomarkers, as well as experimental treatments and other methods. Show NotesTrailer: https://youtu.be/kf9e1o7rUeo?si=WlDYOepN3nId5BS7 Watch on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81757532 Katie Drummond, "Bryan Johnson Is Going to Die," Wired https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-bryan-johnson/ Todd T.W. Daly, Chasing Methuselah: Theology, the Body, and Slowing Human Aging, Cascade Books, 2021, https://a.co/d/dhZLvuv In Chasing Methuselah, Todd Daly examines the modern biomedical anti-aging project from a Christian perspective, drawing on the ancient wisdom of the Desert Fathers, who believed that the incarnation opened a way for human life to regain the longevity of Adam and the biblical patriarchs through prayer and fasting. Daly balances these insights with the christological anthropology of Karl Barth, discussing the implications for human finitude, fear of death, and the use of anti-aging technology, weaving a path between outright condemnation and uncritical enthusiasm.Denyse O'Leary, "A Science-Based Case for the Immortality of the Human Soul," CBHD https://www.cbhd.org/intersections/a-science-based-case-for-the-immortality-of-the-human-soul Kent Dunnington, Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice, IVP Academic, 2011, https://a.co/d/fc8bRLQ Neither of the two dominant models (disease or choice) adequately accounts for the experience of those who are addicted or of those who are seeking to help them. In this interdisciplinary work, Kent Dunnington brings the neglected resources of philosophical and theological analysis to bear on the problem of addiction. Drawing on the insights of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, he formulates an alternative to the usual reductionistic models.
- Walking with Those Who Weepby The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity on September 3, 2025 at 1:45 pm
When we desire to walk well with those who suffer, it is a beautiful reflection of God’s heart in his children. When we are invited into the sacred spaces of loss, we can feel paralyzed in knowing how to do it.Read the piece on our Intersections ForumKirsten’s website, Faithful Paradox
- Center Update: We Need Your Helpby The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity on July 29, 2025 at 9:15 am
This episode of the podcast features Executive Director Matthew Eppinette's update from this year’s conference on CBHD’s future in light of the changes coming at our host institution, Trinity. Show Notes:Give Now: https://www.tiu.edu/giving/bioethics/ Our Latest LetterCBHD Case for Giving
- Cradled in Glass: An Interview with Filmmaker Savannah Crossfieldby The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity on March 11, 2025 at 10:48 pm
Lucidity Pictures and Cradled in Glass: https://luciditypictures.com/projects/cradled-in-glass/International Institute or Restorative Reproductive Medicine: https://iirrm.org/Register for Living in the Biotech Century: The First 25 Years https://www.cbhd.org/conference
- Review and Comment on Recent Bioethics News Itemsby The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity on February 3, 2025 at 10:46 pm
Show Notes "AI and All Its Splendors," Christianity Today "AI Is Making Dating Even Harder," Men’s Health Magazine "Moral Resilience: Nurses experience deep suffering when they can’t act according to their moral compass. Our research shows a way forward," Aeon "What is a Relational Virtue?" Philosophical Studies
Bioethics.com Latest News
- How these chemicals went everywhere and threatened our healthby Bioethics Pundit on December 3, 2025 at 12:16 am
(Washington Post via MSN) – A large body of science has linked phthalates to a variety of serious health conditions, including premature birth and infertility. Studies have also tied the chemicals to neurodevelopment issues like ADHD. In April, a study … Read More
- FDA offers staff ‘agentic AI’ to support premarket reviews, administrative tasksby Bioethics Pundit on December 3, 2025 at 12:11 am
(STAT News) – The Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced plans to offer its employees a broader set of artificial intelligence tools to use in premarket reviews and for other purposes amid persistent concerns that the technology can behave … Read More
- AlphaFold is five years old — these charts show how it revolutionized scienceby Bioethics Pundit on December 3, 2025 at 12:08 am
(Nature) – Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind’s game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins. Five years ago, in late November 2020, researchers at … Read More
- These Zika mothers went to battle — and their cry was heardby Bioethics Pundit on December 2, 2025 at 11:22 pm
(NPR) – Over the last decade, the women in this room have gone from feeling voiceless and powerless to being outright activists, banding together to do something that they might never have imagined. They are demanding that the Brazilian government … Read More
- They Found Relatives on 23andMe—and Asked for a Cut of the Inheritanceby Bioethics Pundit on December 2, 2025 at 11:16 pm
(WSJ) – A year later, she was suing the Brown sisters and their mother. Thomas wanted a share of a multimillion-dollar medical-malpractice award they had won after Joe Brown died of an undiagnosed aortic aneurysm. After all, she was his … Read More