The Dark Side of Science

In this episode, we explore the ethics of autonomous vehicles and detail the fatalities involving this technology to date.

Detailing the journal of controversial ideas... controversy

He Jiankui is, or at least hopefully remains, a Chinese born US-trained scientist that recently made international headlines and sent shockwaves through the global scientific community when he announced that he had successfully produced and implanted genetically modified human embryos which were carried to term and born around November 2018 as twin girls, Lulu and Nana.

Following this story breaking, He disappeared.

China is clearly seeking to establish itself as a world leader in the Sciences, and to attain its first Nobel prize; however, the question must be asked, at what cost? The collective impact of research misconduct and cultural issues at this scale is one that is counterproductive to China’s stated aims and the progress of science that could be of benefit to all humanity.

It was on March 23rd in 1989 that saw two chemists at the University of Utah, Prof. Martin Fleischmann and Prof. Stanley Pons announce they had achieved something which they termed cold fusion. In recent years increasingly loud and qualified voices can be heard talking about the possibility of cold fusion, and similar technologies making a resurgence.

In this episode, I’ll be presenting the story of Jeffrey Beall; an academic librarian who pitted himself against the might of so-called 'predatory' scientific publishers by publicly naming them online. However, the list he published, and Beall himself have largely disappeared from the internet since January 2017. We’re going to find out why.

In this episode, I will be presenting the story of Haruko Obakata; a now infamous Japanese scientist who notoriously claimed to have developed a new technique for generating stem cells. This is a story which sadly ends in scandal, suicide, and resounding shockwaves throughout the world of biomedical research.

In this episode, I’ll be talking about automation, AI, killer robots, the boycott of a Korean institute, the 4 D’s of robotics, and all things autonomous weaponry.

In this episode, I'll be talking about the global phenomenon of biohacking; which has recently been highlighted following the death of Aaron Traywick, the 28-year-old CEO of the now infamous company Ascendance Biomedical.