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On 29 September this year the People Against Eugenics (PAE) gathered outside the Royal Society (RS), a respected scientific academy in central London, to oppose a conference on its premises.[1] PAE declared that, 'This conference is part of a deliberate strategy to advance a eugenic agenda.' The RS was quick to...
University College London (UCL) has two Christian societies, namely the main Christian Union (CU) and the Christian Medics (CM) group. Historically, we have worked closely together to bring people to Christ, with the CU catering for most students and CM having a more medical flavour. We hope that this testimony...
The observation was only a pair of sentences near the end of a review - just the sort of point made in passing that a hasty reader might overlook. But those two sentences in the journal Science, from Yale University biology professor Timothy Goldsmith, reflect a historic shift in the...
Many students feel frustrated that there are limitations set on the clinical procedures they can do on the wards before they qualify. When it comes to being a Christian witness, no such boundaries exist: students have at least as much opportunity as anybody else, and usually more time. So take...
In an address given in 1980, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Charles Malik, identified what he saw as the two tasks of evangelism: saving the soul and saving the mind; converting people not only spiritually, but also intellectually. The western church, he warned, is lagging dangerously behind with this...
Have you ever been embarrassed by the miracles in the Bible? Have you winced at the thought of defending them before your medical colleagues? How about the account of creation,[2] the ten plagues of the Exodus,[3] the day the sun stood still,[4] or perhaps some of the healing miracles of...
If I said that medical school was all about revision and exams, on the face of it I wouldn’t be far off the mark. Barely a week goes by without one year group or another becoming stressed, focusing on the minutiae that come up in the dreaded MCQs. Often, the...
The current law allows married couples and single parents to adopt. Social workers assess the applicants and decide whether they are suitable for the child who needs parenting. From 2005 the law will change to make provision for unmarried couples to adopt. Our liberal government has made no stipulation, deliberately,...
Editor, Thank you for another excellent Nucleus. It’s always interesting, informative and provocative. Referring to the article, ‘Dodging the elephant’ (Nucleus 2004; October:2-5), I can’t help but think that our efforts to be politically correct in the medical terminology we use to describe the unborn simply adds to muddled thinking...
BPAS controversy The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Britain’s leading abortion provider, has become the subject of controversy after a Telegraph exposé revealed that they have referred women to Spain for abortions after the UK legal limit of 24 weeks. A heavily pregnant reporter contacted BPAS for information about terminations, asking whether...
