2008
An Emerging Consensus: Human Biotechnology Policies Around the World, Science Progress, Center for American Progress, Washington D.C., November 6, 2008.
Is there an emerging international consensus on the proper uses of the new human genetic technologies? Testimony before the US House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, June 19, 2008. See video here. See Congressional Record here.
Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks, Washington Post, April 15, 2008.
Self-Made Man; Review of Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice by Ronald M. Green and Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making People Better by John Harris, The American Interest (January - February 2008).
2007
Beyond the Embryo Fight: A recent stem-cell breakthrough negates the need for research using human embryos, Los Angeles Times, November 22, 2007.
Presentation at the launch of "Beyond Bioethics," Francis Fukuyama, Franco Furger, Richard Hayes, William A. Galston, Shannon Brownlee, New America Foundation, Washington D.C., March 2, 2007.
Our Biopolitical Future: Four Scenarios [PDF], World Watch, February 28, 2007.
A Majoritarian Proposal for Governing Human Biotechnology, Bioethics Forum, January 3, 2007.
2006
Opinion: A truce in the stem cell wars?, San Francisco Examiner, November 24, 2006.
Does the Senate vote on stem-cell research matter? YES: It's a step toward needed oversight and regulation, San Francisco Chronicle, July 19, 2006.
Stem Cells and Public Policy. New York: The Century Foundation, June 2006.
KTVU TV News interview on stem cells, cloning, eugenics. June 2006.
Opening Comments at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) consultation on Human Enhancement, June 1, 2006.
Stem Cell Caution, TomPaine.com, May 24, 2006.
Hold scientists accountable, The Baltimore Sun, January 17, 2006.
2004-2005
Introduction to "The Next Four Years, the Biotech Agenda and the Human Future", City University of New York Symposium, December 9, 2004.
Inequality, Democracy and the New Human Biotechnologies, Presentation at "Inequality, Democracy and the New Human Biotechnologies: A Threshold Challenge for the 21st Century," The Century Foundation, New York, NY, July 15, 2004.
Learning From California's Mistake, TomPaine.com, April 18, 2005.
Breaking the policy deadlock on cloning and assisted reproduction, San Francisco Chronicle, April 4, 2004.
Supersize your child?, TomPaine.com, February 15, 2004.
2002-2003
Towards an International Ethical, Social and Political Accord on Human Cloning and Human Species Alteration, presentation at Sixth World Congress of Bioethics, Brasilia, Brazil, November 1, 2002.
The Science and Politics of Genetically Modified Humans, Worldwatch, July 1, 2002.
Break the Cloning Deadlock, Christian Science Monitor, June 10, 2002.
It's worth copying Canada's model for cloning legislation, Seattle Times, June 3, 2002.
A Timeout on Cloning Embryos, Baltimore Sun, April 23, 2002.
Nucleus of the debate, Call a timeout on cloning embryos for research, San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 2002.
2000-2001
The Quiet Campaign for Genetically Engineered Humans, Earth Island Journal, Spring 2001.
Human Genetic Engineering; an interview with Richard Hayes, in Made Not Born: The Troubling World of Biotechnology, Casey Walker, ed., Sierra Club Books, October 2000.
The Politics of the New Human Genetic Technologies, Loka Institute, May 9, 2000.
In the Pipeline: Genetically Modified Humans? Multinational Monitor, Jan-Feb 2000.
1990s
INEQUALITY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE HUMAN FUTURE. Commencement Address, University of California at Berkeley Energy and Resources Group, May 21, 1994.