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Frustrated with slow vaccine uptake and a sharp rise in COVID infections, some countries, such as Austria and Greece, have introduced vaccine mandates. And last week, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, called for other EU countries to consider doing the same.
Three ethicists make the case for the UK not to go down this road. “The risk of vaccine mandates to public confidence in government are substantial,” they argue, “but there are even more important moral issues.”
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Clint Witchalls
Health + Medicine Editor (UK edition)
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Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford; Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford; Jonathan Pugh, University of Oxford
Austria and Greece have introduced vaccine mandates, and Germany is considering it.
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We have only sent people to the Moon six times so far.
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Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University
A space station on the Moon could be built out of lunar concrete.
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Choose and no queues.
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Kokho Jason Sit, University of Portsmouth
Sainsbury’s is also experimenting with the till-free technology.
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Health + Medicine
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Mark McDermott, University of East London; Kathryn Lafreniere, University of Windsor
Inconsistent rules, those in charge setting a poor example, and feeling rebellious are all factors that may prevent people from wearing a mask.
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Alexander Holden, University of Sydney
Stress is one of the main contributing factors.
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Caitlin Notley, University of East Anglia; Konstantinos Farsalinos, University of West Attica
Tobacco smoking results in DNA changes to a much greater magnitude than vaping
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Environment + Energy
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Heather Alberro, Nottingham Trent University
Disruption caused by activists blockading roads is virtually non-existent compared to climate change.
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Ilan Kelman, UCL
Global floods in 2021 showed the danger of poor emergency preparedness - and the importance of planning ahead.
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Kian Mintz-Woo, University College Cork
Soaking up and storing CO₂ is not just a question of technology.
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Barry Richards, Bournemouth University
People without ideologies or with confused ideologies make up the largest group of people reported to the Prevent programme.
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Maurice Stierl, University of Sheffield
The European Commission is standing with Poland, despite evidence of serious human rights violations.
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Chamu Kuppuswamy, University of Hertfordshire
The verdict opens the way for further genocide prosecutions.
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