On Wed, October 23th at 4:00pm, the Waide Center for Applied Ethics will host a virtual seminar (via Zoom) w/Sven Nyholm on “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.” The seminar is free and open to all. Details are available here: events.fairfield.edu/event/sven-n... | @svennyholm.bsky.social

Sven Nyholm: “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence”

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AI era puts philosophy in demand at Korea’s top universities

Philosophy programs at Korea’s top universities are drawing intense competition as students seek critical-thinking skills for an AI-driven future.

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I would also like to see this, which was reported by the WSJ www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Club Announcement Spurs 🤦‍♂️@markscrivens.bsky.social · 6d ago

I’m not greedy. Full CETA implementation, Australian style work visas, and sailing past US tourists in the passport line would be good enough for me.

🚩 Ivermectin = MAJOR RED FLAG FOR BUNK 🚩 Watchdog asked Amazon to remove listings for dozens of medicines, many of which included Ivermectin www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/... "...promoted online as a cure or treatment for a wide variety of health conditions including cancer and autism."

Watchdog asked Amazon to remove listings for dozens of medicines, many of which included Ivermectin

HPRA wrote to the online retailer asking for a permanent block to be placed on products

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Accepting proposals for book reviews for the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Send me an email with your book, or idea for a review of a book. I'm open to reviews of art and film as well. So get creative and send me a note.

@leighturner.bsky.social & I show how problematic journal articles can keep shambling along after retraction. These zombie articles continue to appear without notice of their status on publishers' websites, other publications, promotional materials, and, now, AI search results.

Why retracted articles can have an influential afterlife—and what to do about it

Abstract. Retractions of published journal articles are an increasingly common means by which the research community ensures the quality and integrity of p

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I'm very happy to share a new OA publication in Public Health Ethics. I argue for the inclusion of a principle of non-complicity among other public health ethics principles & that non-complicity complements other ethical principles & particularly addresses limitations in a principle of solidarity.

Non-complicity as a principle of public health ethics

Abstract. The concept of complicity has received increased interest in academic and popular venues to describe a range of moral phenomena including contrib

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Faculty position at Calgary careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1820090...

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

This is heartbreaking. “Presten had chronic myeloid leukemia, but he had not been seen by the hospital’s oncology team in more than a year. Mooney had been caring for him at home, using alternative treatments guided by an unlicensed practitioner. She didn’t trust the hospital to help her son”

Why MAHA Rallied for a Mother Seeking Alternative Treatments for Her Son’s Cancer

Dayna Mooney chose alternative remedies over the recommendations of her son’s doctors. Was that her right as a parent or a threat to his care?

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Very happy that philosopher Talia Mae Bettcher has been appointed as an Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada @ Waterloo, with long term funding to lead ambitious research programs aligned with Canada’s strategic priorities. #philosophy uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...

International student visa applications and approvals, Canada 2022-2025. We're down 90% on where we were three years ago. Given that intl student fees brought in about $14B at their peak, we're looking at the potential loss by 2028 of $12B of PSE income (or about 16% of the total).

If you haven’t already, I encourage you to check out The Society for Nursing Ethics International (SONEI). The SONEI website includes a rich repository of nursing-ethics related resources. My essay on everyday ethics in nursing is on the SONEI blog this week:

Ethical awareness in everyday nursing practice

Aimee Milliken PhD, RN, HEC-C When you think about ethics, what comes to mind? You may imagine famous cases you learned about in school, like Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, or Terri Schaivo.…

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2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.

Lots of British Columbians would love to see some US nurses and family physicians heading up here.

Government of British Columbia@governmentofbc.bsky.social · 4w ago

Watch Dr. Kopstick's story and hear why he chose to build his future in BC. Know a health-care worker in the US? Share this story, or tag them in the comments, and let them know BC's hiring.

Interesting interview with @gofundme.com CEO Tim Cadogan and @reckless.bsky.social. Cadogan says an advantage of private donations over the public safety net is that donations come "with love". This ignores consistent findings that this 'love' is distributed very, very inequitably.

The Verge@theverge.com · 4w ago

CEO Tim Cadogan on how a for-profit company becomes a social safety net www.theverge.com/podcast/9829...

Our new piece in BMJ: Artificial intelligence as a new commercial determinant of health www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

A detailed write up of the link between Harp, Right to Try, and the Trump administration from @benstockton.bsky.social in the Telegraph with some quotes and analysis from me.

Jeremy Snyder@jsnyder.bsky.social · last mo.

Natalie Harp and Right to Try (RTT) thread! Natalie Harp is in the news this week. I became very familiar with her story six years ago in writing a piece for the Washington Post that focused on Trump’s federal RTT legislation aimed at providing access to unapproved medical interventions. /1

Natalie Harp and Right to Try (RTT) thread! Natalie Harp is in the news this week. I became very familiar with her story six years ago in writing a piece for the Washington Post that focused on Trump’s federal RTT legislation aimed at providing access to unapproved medical interventions. /1

Perspective | Trump brags that he’s helping patients access medical ‘miracles.’ He isn’t.

Evidence that ‘Right to Try’ has improved patients’ lives is basically non-existent.

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Wow - wildly unethical at the very least: “Median Strategies was created as a short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification.” "Purported" here seems to equal "fake".

hilzoy@hilzoy.bsky.social · last mo.

Josh Marshall on a completely unethical “experiment.” Also a reminder never to let polls affect your enthusiasm and organizing.

Learn to Ode!

CIHR, Canada's health granting agency, reports a flat number of grants funded with applications up over 50% in 5 years. "The result is more time spent preparing, administering and reviewing applications with ever-lower likelihoods of funding success"

This is very good article in the Beijing News on the gene therapy trial death of a girl, a story broken in Borrell's stunning piece in Science. (At least it looks good in my laborious Google Translate version, despite quoting me) www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/17858... www.science.org/content/arti...

RFKJr continues to stack FDA advisory panels with charlatans and snake oil salesmen. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist.

FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

nytimes.com

How is AI changing the ways commercial actors influence health? Check out our new article published in BMJ: "Artificial intelligence as a new commercial determinant of health." We introduce the AI commercial determinants of health (AI-CDoH) framework 🧵 @bmj.com 1/9

Yet another Kalshi offering that serves no legitimate economic purpose. It's not possible to make a rational bet on this without material non-public information. It's a market solely for fraud by both regulators and corporate insiders, and everyone connected to it in any way should go to prison.

Kalshi Will Offer Sports-Style Betting on Drug Trial Results

Kalshi Inc. is expanding in biotechnology by offering wagers on the outcomes of clinical trials and regulatory decisions, giving traders a more direct way to bet on key industry catalysts.

bloomberg.com

The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Blog Editors are always seeking new submissions. Here is a quick overview of: - who edits the blog - how to reach us - general post guidelines - examples of post types Please share with the feminist bioethicists in your life!

Writing for the IJFAB Blog

The IJFAB Blog editors are always seeking new submissions for the blog. Here is an update of who the editors are, how to contact us, some general guidelines for blog posts, and an open call for creati...

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US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra welcomed Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich to his July 4 party in Ottawa tonight Lich is currently serving a house arrest sentence in relation to a criminal conviction over her role in the convoy's three-week occupation of Canada's capital city

STORY: Earlier this year, I obtained localized life expectancy data in B.C. The figures show that in many areas outside big cities, life expectancy is LOWER than 20 years ago. At the bottom of the story, you can find trends for every local health area in B.C. STORY HERE: thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

New study examines crowdfunding for unproven stem cell-based treatments for ALS. It’s disheartening to see quacks targeting ALS patients. Note the bogus #Lyme and toxins claims. Authors: @marcozenone.bsky.social @caulfieldtim.bsky.social @jsnyder.bsky.social Michael Jewer doi.org/10.1080/2167...