“Who are the men and women who are to advise on major moral and ethical issues in Dortmund? The city kept quiet for a long time, but now there are names. [...] Michael Quante is Professor of Practical Philosophy in Münster. His research specialisms include biomedical ethics as well as legal and social philosophy.”

“How will we remember the time of the pandemic one day? Historians from three German universities asked themselves this question in March 2020 and launched the “Coronarchiv”. [...] For historian Malte Thießen, however, such statements are not a problem: “This has always been the case with archives,” says the head of the Institute for Westphalian Regional History at the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe and honorary professor at the University of Münster, referring to accounts from earlier contemporaries that are on record but not consensual.”

“‘Where does evil come from?’ is certainly a timeless question that has always preoccupied people, but at the moment the topic seems more pressing than it did a few years ago due to wars, political unrest and a rise in populism. Prof. Dr. Christian Pietsch looked for answers in the history of philosophy and theology at the Catholic Forum in Koblenz on 17 March.”

“More and more people are taking DNA tests to find out about their roots. But how meaningful are they really, and what happens to the collected data? [...] Elisabeth Timm, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Münster, argues along similar lines. ‘The statements made by the ethnicity test are not scientific,’ she tells Wochenblatt. She considers the percentage allocation to an ethnic group such as Scandinavians or Italians to be nonsense.”