Are we ready for a world where our data is exposed at a glance? Caine Ardayfio 🐧 and I offer an answer to protect yourself here: tinyurl.com/meet-ixray

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Veterans identifying as Black and veterans with greater proportions of non-Veterans Affairs care had worse surgical outcomes. ja.ma/4fg3UyO

I spoke w/ The Associated Press about the use of inaccurate, insecure AI transcription tools in clinical settings. The stakes are high & the consequences may be grave. We must demand that AI in medicine abide laws and codes of ethics like HIPAA and the Hippocratic Oath. apnews.com/article/ai-art…

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Trump’s talk of ‘bad genes’ is rooted in eugenics. "While racists harbor hatred for others because of their ethnicity or the color of their skin, eugenicists take it a step further and 'like to legislate people out of existence.'" statnews.com/2024/10/28/eug… via anil oza

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"Three-fifths of Americans are worried about how much data people have about them on the internet (62%). This panic is constant across demographics" #privacy #AIEthics business.yougov.com/content/50756-…

🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud. ⛔️These people are wrong⛔️ I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/

I like the idea of synthetic data for #privacy reasons, but worry about inaccuracy. What's your experience? #AIEthics nature.com/articles/s4159…

Restricting sugar exposure in the first two years of life can meaningfully reduce the risk of chronic diseases in adulthood. We need to rethink many cereals, snacks, and treats for children. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New evidence pinpointing the risk of multiple sclerosis from Epstein-Barr virus jci.org/articles/view/… Journal of Clinical Investigation MedUni Wien

Study highlights differences in withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, mortality, and health process outcomes for patients with complete traumatic spinal cord injury among uninsured and publicly insured patients compared to privately insured patients. ja.ma/4ee67tw

The virtue of synthetic data is often understood to be its detachment from the data subjects whose measurement data is used to generate it. But if we want to address the ethical issues synthetic data raises, we might need to bring these subjects back into the picture. In a new

This is absurd. Why are insurance companies denying coverage for germline genetic testing in 34% of patients where NCCN guidelines recommend testing based on their diagnosis alone?

Just watched the full House hearing & testimony of NIH Director Dr. Monica Bertignolli. A few takeaways: • the proposed budget, in addition to not increasing for inflation, wants to condense NIH from 27 to 15 institutes. The NIH does not think this is a good idea. 🧵1/?

Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.