Led by Holly Taylor and a great team of co-authors incl. our @EmTumilty thehastingscenter.org/e_and_h_r/crea… #Bioethics #ResearchEthics

On Twitter, contemporary ethics is represented by two separate, yet equally important groups: those who worship Kant, and those who mock him. ... These are their stories.

250 have trained in Cuba since 2006. Good article on how it has worked out for them and their home countries

After a break in Sept., we're back! Deakin Bioethics Clinical Ethics Seminars Series organizers are so excited to have the lovely A/Prof. Jessica Moore from MD Anderson Cancer Center presenting on supported decision-making. Register now! eventbrite.com.au/e/deakin-bioet… #Bioethics #ClinicalEthics

Want to join GenV – our world-leading child and parent health research project? Find out how you can get involved: genv.org.au/for-parents/ho…

Breaking News: The WHO approved the first ever malaria vaccine, which could save tens of thousands of children in sub-Saharan Africa. The quest for this vaccine has been underway for a hundred years, a WHO official said, and is a "historic event." nyti.ms/3oxUgAy

The #end-of-life period and the need for #ethical #guidance to conduct research in the unique complexity of the #deceased #donation and #transplant scenario Dominique E. Martin Prof Gabriel Oniscu ow.ly/5uJF50GtB7D

I’m suffering from a bad case of “hindsightitis” thinking of all of the things I wish I had said when we were recording this episode of Undisciplinary (undisciplinary.bsky.social) . Here’s a 🧵 of some of them.

Statistics is just as much a model of reality as physics is but statistics takes into account the vastness of human ignorance. We don't walk around knowing everything to six decimal places. That's not our reality.

Another continuing lecturer position in Australia with #bioethics on the skills list, this time with primary focus on #publichealth La Trobe University #academicjobs seek.com.au/job/54841081?s…

The musical genius (Fact. Widely cited & peer-reviewed) even retweeted the video to his followers. Thank you for using your influence to create a healthier narrative for masculinity ROBERT SMITH ! 💪

‘People are dying on the floor’: healthcare workers tell of Covid devastation in Solomon Islands. What can Australia do to help NOW?⁦Zed Seselja⁩ ⁦Elizabeth Peak⁩ ⁦Eileen ⚕️🇸🇧⁩ ⁦Australian High Commission, Solomon Islands⁩ ⁦⁦dr chris hair⁩ theguardian.com/world/2022/feb…

I'm seriously considering starting a journal called "Descriptive Epidemiology" that just publishes well-done descriptive papers since existing biomedical journals don't seem to value those AT ALL. Do better, existing journals!

Interesting article with comments from Julian Savulescu Allan Pacey MBE & me #donorconception theguardian.com/science/2022/o…

The failure of the p-value is an alignment problem. It's an algorithmic construct that doesn't do what people think it does, and which has caused profound social harm because of that misalignment.

Israel has dropped over 117 white phosphorus bombs on 36 villages in South Lebanon since October 7th, deliberately targeting and burning our forests, farmlands and olive trees, and poisoning our soil, animals and water. Zero peep from the “international community”, of course.

As psychiatrists, we are failing our patients. We prescribe medications and wonder why adherence is an issue. It’s obvious when we see that 94% of people on these medications are overweight or obese. 🧵1/10

1/ That "immortal time" is so frequent in survival analyses for #causalinference is fascinating. Because "immortal time" doesn't exist in the data, *we* create it when misanalyzing data. Our paper pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39494894/ summarizes why immortal time arises & how to prevent it.