Michael Cook

Michael Cook likes bad puns, bushwalking and black coffee. He did a BA at Harvard University in the US where it was good for networking, but moved to Sydney where it wasn’t. He also did a PhD on an obscure corner of Australian literature. He has worked as a book editor and magazine editor and has published articles in magazines and newspapers in the US, the UK and Australia. Currently he is the editor of BioEdge, a newsletter about bioethics, and MercatorNet. He also writes a bioethics column for Australasian Science and contributes occasional op-ed pieces to newspapers and websites in the US, UK and Australia.

The media’s “sea of fire”

10 May 2013 |

tags: homophobia, homosexuality, John Maynard Keynes

Why is the media frothing over criticism of a long-dead homosexual economist?

Not a noble death

7 May 2013 |

tags: Belgium, euthanasia

The euthanasia of Nobel laureate Christian de Duve in Belgium is a worrying precedent for the world's baby boomers.

Fraud threatens the integrity of social psychology

4 May 2013 |

tags: scientific method, social psychology

Scientific studies are used to support controversial social policies like same-sex marriage. But can we rely on them?

Tasmania’s intimidating abortion bill

30 Apr 2013 |

tags: abortion, conscientious objection, Tasmania

Deregistration, heavy fines and jail terms threaten those who voice their opposition to abortion.

Why should we care about Boston?

24 Apr 2013 |

tags: Boston Marathon bombings, Christianity, media, solidarity

Some Australian journalists have asked why so much coverage was given to American deaths and so little to deaths in Iraq. Are they right?

The other controversial legacy

16 Apr 2013 |

tags: bioethics, IVF, Nobel Prize, Robert Edwards

Robert Edwards, the inventor of IVF, died two days after Margaret Thatcher. History may show that his impact was even greater than hers.

Is the one-child policy spoiling China’s children?

12 Apr 2013 |

tags: China, demography, one-child policy

Research confirms all the cliches about "little emperors", the children of parents who were forced to stop at one.

Jumping on the bandwagon

5 Apr 2013 |

tags: same-sex marriage, US

We should have expected that politicians would line up to support gay marriage.

Another man from a far country

14 Mar 2013 |

tags: Francis, secular humanism, Vatican

Will a Pope from Argentina be able to brake the increasing secularisation of life in the West?

Scotland’s spiritual scandal

9 Mar 2013 |

tags: BBC, Catholic Church, scandal, Scotland

Disheartened Catholics mustn't waste a good crisis after the disgrace of Cardinal Keith O'Brien.

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