German Ethicists Under Fire

The German Ethics Council, one of those national ethics committees that every country but the U.S. seems to have and love, is under fire from opposition parties - the ethics committee is appointed by the Chancellor, and is in some ways the ideal political football in an election year. Opposition leaders maintain that the committee just advances the ideas of the administration. Imagine a bioethics committee that would do that ...
[thanks Andy Rosenthal]