Wrongful (but not wrong) Prediction
There was an episode of Welcome Back, Kotter that aired in 1976. Juan Epstein, a character in Kotter’s infamous classroom of remedial students called the…
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Bioethics as Broad and Deep
I envision a broad bioethics, one that covers the relationships and interactions between science and society. Bioethics ranges from dilemmas arising in the relationship between…
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Hunger and The Global Food Crisis
Organizations and scholars frame the current food crisis as a global phenomenon due to a confluence of events and circumstances like droughts, the pandemic, and…
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“Somewhere in the constitution”: Reproductive Freedom
Reactions to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health are wide ranging, and many seem to reflect emotion and use charged language. I do not mean to…
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Big Data as Collective Judgments
People put a lot of stock in data. Data is essentially information. It often becomes the basis for an assumption. When we think of data,…
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Can AI Commit a Crime? A Look at Intent
In criminal law, the mens rea is the criminal intent. It is a mindset – most crimes require both an act and a mindset. Often…
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Anti-Resilience: What Happened to Normal?
Diagnosis is a tricky word. Doctors diagnose some scientific truths: for example, a finding of a tumor and the accompanying pathology report describing cellular activity…
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The Social Determinants of Health: Finding Causation in a Sea of Correlation
The social determinants of health by Marmot and Wilkinson are a list of social circumstances that impede or positively influence good health. Pointing out barriers…
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Let the Chips Fall: Bioethics Should Support Civil Justice
Bioethics concerns justice, fairness, and the social determinants of health. One example of an area in which bioethics can contribute to promoting justice is in…
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Blockchain and Health: Will Healthcare NFTs be the Next Bored Ape?
I don’t think so, but I do wonder whether the coins or tokens that yield healthcare access or access to items and services conducive to…
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A Supply Chain of Trust
One strategy for improving public trust in science, the COVID-19 vaccine and possibly future COVID-19 vaccines or vaccines for emerging virus should be improving trustworthiness…
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Prerequisites for Earning Public Trust: A Logical Approach for Food and Vaccination
A waiter at a restaurant tightly stuffs a large tea bag with loose tea and securely knots the bag, which is then placed in a…
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Bound by the Rules: The Pitfalls of Resource Allocation Ethics
When ethics becomes too rules-based the thinking and making sense of complex situations can be obscured by techniques that declare some ethical decisions final and…
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New York’s Mandate and the Absence of a Religious Exemption
On December 13, 2021, the US Supreme Court denied injunctive relief in Dr. A v. Hochul. This post is meant to summarize the dissent, follow…
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Brain Activity & Thoughts: Should Neuro-Rights Look Beyond the Individual?
Neuro-rights may protect people from certain harms due to neurotech advances. Neurotech has potential to improve medical treatments and revolutionize care, but there are foreseeable…
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