Moratorium call

Harmful moratorium on stem cell research.

Donation after cardiocirculatory death: a call for a moratorium pending full public disclosure and fully informed consent

Many believe that the ethical problems of donation after cardiocirculatory death (DCD) have been "worked out" and that it is unclear why DCD should be resisted. In this paper we will argue that DCD donors may not yet be dead, and therefore that organ donation during DCD may violate the dead donor rule. We first present a description of the process of DCD and the standard ethical rationale for t...

Proposed Moratorium on Changes to Network Protocol

Bill Crowther’s RFC No. 67 raised a much more fundamental issue than the question of marking. Any change to presently established protocol is going to involve changes in the hardware/software development efforts that have, in some instances, been going on for over 6 months. In the case of Multics, this effort has yielded programs either complete or in the advanced debugging stages. This is no d...

The H5N1 Moratorium Controversy and Debate

The pause in gain-of-function experiments involving highly pathogenic avian influenza virus to dissect mechanisms of mammalian transmission and virulence is a historic moment for science. The scientific community and the greater society that it serves are currently engaged in a vigorous debate on whether and how to carry out experiments that could provide essential information for preparedness ...

Moratorium on mayhem lest there be a requiem.

A warm summer evening, June 25, 1965, and resident in medicine, Nick Pinheiro, was seated at his favorite tasca in Porto enjoying Portugal’s outstanding seafare and a bottle of chilled vinho verde. This had become Nick’s usual haunt on Friday evenings and he now knew most of the staff including Carlos, a waiter whose hoarse voice and slurred speech made deciphering the evening’s specials a chal...