New preprint 🚨 "Who—or what—should predict an incapacitated patient's wishes? Public attitudes towards AI in substituted medical decision-making" - www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Ethical analysis of tooth extraction on patient request

New Preprint 🚨 In Favour of Personalised AI Moral Advisors: Six Design Conditions www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Interesting persepctive from long-time Bioethics editor Udo Schuklenk: "Why journal editors should stop policing authorship" - Journal of Medical Ethics blog blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethi... (a reflection on his commentary for our special collection on AI and authorship jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/3/... )

Content, not provenance, is what matters: why journal editors should not police authorship

Friends! Josh Knobe & Ivar Hannikainen, dear colleagues & mentors to many of us, are running a v. short study seeking *philosophers* as participants, to see about your intuitions about various famous cases. If you are a philosopher, please take their 5 min survey! moralsciencelab.com/intuitions/

Latest in JME Practical Bioethics 🚨 "Ethics of ‘digital duplicates’ or AI simulations of real people: towards an international consensus" - Now that anyone can easily make an AI "twin" of themselves or others, how should this be ethically evaluated? Open access: jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/3/...

New preprint 🚨Peer Reviewers Should be Allowed to Upload Manuscripts to AI Publishers bar peer reviewers—but not authors or editors—from feeding manuscripts to AI. The main arguments in favour of the ban don't survive scrutiny. LINK: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New preprint 🚨 When Healthcare Decisions Exceed Normal Cognition: AI-Assisted Deliberation and the Future of Informed Consent www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Child genital cutting and surgery across cultures, sex, and gender. Part 2: assessing consent and medical necessity in “endosex” modifications - International Journal of Impotence Research www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Child genital cutting and surgery across cultures, sex, and gender. Part 2: assessing consent and medical necessity in “endosex” modifications - International Journal of Impotence Research

International Journal of Impotence Research - Child genital cutting and surgery across cultures, sex, and gender. Part 2: assessing consent and medical necessity in “endosex” modifications

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The unspoken tensions that AI brings to academic collaboration - Nature Human Behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41... ... yes makes some good points. Ironically, though, pretty clearly written with AI.

The unspoken tensions that AI brings to academic collaboration - Nature Human Behaviour

Nature Human Behaviour - The unspoken tensions that AI brings to academic collaboration

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Circumcision as a Critical Test Case for the Value of Religious Bioethics: A Close Examination of the Writings of Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Circumcision as a Critical Test Case for the Value of Religious Bioethics: A Close Examination of the Writings of Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff

PDF | This essay examines the role of religion in bioethics through the lens of male circumcision, focusing on the work of Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, a... | Find, read and cite all the research you need…

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Attie-Picker argues that a student's email about a weak assignment wasn't an excuse, but a plea for forgiveness. #EduSky

Brian D. Earp, PhD@briandavidearp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Getting Out of Blame: Excuses, Forgiveness, and the Deep Self onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Appealing to who we are (or who we are not) as a way of asking for forgiveness #philsky

Brian D. Earp, PhD@briandavidearp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Getting Out of Blame: Excuses, Forgiveness, and the Deep Self onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Getting Out of Blame: Excuses, Forgiveness, and the Deep Self onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Getting Out of Blame: Excuses, Forgiveness, and the Deep Self

We often feel that what we have done is somehow not in keeping with who we are. This tension, or incongruity, between the person we take ourselves to be and what that person has done seems to matter…

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If your solution is “I would simply teach in a constructive, clever, warm, and inspiring manner that overcame all of these obstacles and brought out the inner virtue that I know exists inside every student waiting only to be awakened” OK good for you I guess

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics: "Beyond fixed categories: dynamic vulnerability and context-sensitive inclusion in the revised Declaration of Helsinki" by Florencia Luna — a response to last year's analysis of the 2024 DoH revision OPEN ACCESS link ➡️ jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/3/...

Oops! Here is the correct link for this one jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

The Marburg outbreak in Rwanda: a One Health success story?

The recent Marburg Virus Disease outbreak in Rwanda has been praised as a public health and One Health (OH) success story. In this essay, I question this praise. I point to several knowledge gaps or i...

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Brian D. Earp, PhD@briandavidearp.bsky.social · 4w ago

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics: "The Marburg outbreak in Rwanda: a One Health success story?" by Zohar Lederman — the 2024 outbreak has been widely praised as a model response. This paper asks whether that praise is warranted. OPEN ACCESS link ➡️ jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New 🚨 Issue of JME Practical Bioethics (Vol 2 Issue 3), led by a new instalment of our recurring series: 🌍 Global Bioethics Bulletin 📰 dispatches on access to abortion, featuring our dedicated regional editors and helmed this time by Shizuko Takahashi OPEN ACCESS ➡️ jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics: "The Marburg outbreak in Rwanda: a One Health success story?" by Zohar Lederman — the 2024 outbreak has been widely praised as a model response. This paper asks whether that praise is warranted. OPEN ACCESS link ➡️ jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics: "Anticipatory antibiotics as preventive medicine: the ethics of proactive clinical trials" by Mardikar Should we wait until an antibiotic stops working before we test what comes next? Mardikar argues argues no. OPEN ACCESS jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

Ethics of not knowing who we are talking to in qualitative research

I just handled a manuscript where we had to invite 17 referees to get 2 reviews. I used to wonder why peer review takes so long. Multiple factors are at play. But editors face a Herculean task of getting reviewers to accept and then deliver in the current moment.

New paper (under review). 🚨 "Against Mandatory Prompt Disclosure in AI-Assisted Scholarship" by myself, Udo Schuklenk, Julian Savulescu, and Sebastian Porsdam Mann buff.ly/8V1W29A

New preprint 🚨 Introducing 'P5' - the paediatric personalised patient preference predictor ☺️ "Paediatric Preference Prediction: The Future of Decision-Making for Children?" By DJC Wilkinson, J Savulescu & me buff.ly/sxmXf6I

“If the funders said to me that I have to dress in orange, I would dress in orange”: findings from qualitative interviews on researchers’ experiences of public involvement - Research Involvement and Engagement link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“If the funders said to me that I have to dress in orange, I would dress in orange”: findings from qualitative interviews on researchers’ experiences of public involvement - Research Involvement and Engagement

Background Public involvement is increasingly mandated in health and medical research in the UK. With a push for its implementation from major funding bodies over the past few decades, we aimed to…

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Glad the NYT is covering such timely and important issues, especially with everything that's going on in the world.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

You don't have to go to a nice hotel to have a five-star experience. Now, indulgently fragranced laundry can be a daily luxury in your own home. nyti.ms/4g9ptor

🚨 2 CALLS FOR COMMENTARY🚨 1. Death, authorship and generative AI: a call for commentaries jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/... 2. Normalising transparency: an argument for requiring generative AI use declarations in all manuscripts—with a call for commentaries doi.org/10.1136/jme-...