Dr. Robert Klitzman
@robertklitzman.bsky.social
Prof. of Psychiatry & Director of the Bioethics MS Program at Columbia University | Author, most recently, of DOCTOR, WILL YOU PRAY FOR ME? & DESIGNING BABIES https://sps.columbia.edu/person/robert-klitzman-md
How to cope with world upheaval as we begin a new year: My essay in @psychologytoday.com psychologytoday.com/us/blog/am-i... #PsychologyToday #MentalHealth #WorldEvents
How to Cope with World Upheaval
Personal Perspective: Perceived threats to global values cause worry and denial.
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U.S. hospitals prioritizing organs for foreign patients, bypassing waitlists. Several hospitals involved refused to comment, raising serious ethical concerns. #OrganTransplants #Bioethics #TransplantEthics www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Hospitals Cater to ‘Transplant Tourists’ as U.S. Patients Wait for Organs
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FDA unproven claims of deaths from COVID Vaccine raise ethical concerns #RFKJr #MAHA #vaccines #antivaxx #Trump #bioethics #pediatrics www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...
F.D.A. Seeks More Oversight of Vaccine Trials and Approvals
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5 stages of grief for our democracy: My new piece in @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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Grateful for this new review of Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains and Healing the Whole Person from the Journal of Palliative Medicine. doi.org/10.1177/1096...
Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person | Journal of Palliative Medicine
Journal of Palliative Medicine
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Thrilled to see several of our former Columbia University Bioethics Master's students at The University of Hong Kong!
RFK, Jr. fires NIH scientists who were whistleblowers about public health threats, raising ethical concerns nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h... #bioethics #RFKJr #science #nih #ethics #vaccines
Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint
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What will happen to Obamacare? Huge threat from Congress raises major ethical concerns -- from @nytimes.com #bioethics #trump #congress #republicans #GOP #taxcuts #healthcare www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...
Why Obamacare Bills May Double Next Year
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Review in the Hastings Center Report of my new book, Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Link to book: amazon.com/Doctor-Will-... #bioethics #chaplains #spirituality #religion #health #doctors
God 2.0?
Robert L. Klitzman's Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person (Oxford University Press, 2024) offers a fervent apology for the increasingly crucial role of chap...
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Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Conference in Paris, June 11–12, 2026. I’ll be speaking there! Abstract submission deadline is 3 weeks from now. Details: csb.eu.com/conference/ #bioethics #healthcare #refugees #climatechange #AI #Paris
Existential Threats and Other Disasters –International Conference
"Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges" at Reid Hall in Paris, France (June 11–12, 2026)
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The CRISPR Babies: My thoughts in the new Science History Podcast www.sciencehistory.org/stories/dist... #bioethics #genetics #healthcare #eugenics
CRISPR: Big Breakthrough, Big Questions
CRISPR is a powerful technology, but altering the genes of children gave us pause.
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RFK, Jr., Congressional testimony raises many ethical concerns -- from @nytimes.com nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u... #vaccines #antivaxxers #Trump #publichealth #bioethics #measles #polio #healthcare
A Defiant Kennedy Defends Vaccine Changes and C.D.C. Shake-Up
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What really causes autism and what we should about it: my essay from the @hastingscenter.bsky.social forum
What Really Causes Autism and What We Should Do About It : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
There are crucial questions about what causes autism and how to prevent and address it.
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New AI abilities to 'read' ALS patient's words offers hope, but also raises important neuroethics questions--see @carlzimmer.com's piece in the @nytimes.com nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s... #bioethics #neuroethics #healthcare #neurology #brain #healthpolicy #law
For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible
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Rising tide of fake scientific papers, which may increase due to funding cuts, raises major concerns -- see @carlzimmer.com's piece in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s... #bioethics #MedSky
Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
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Trump launches pilot plan to cover weight loss drugs, but what of the costs of Ozempic? My further thoughts in @newsweek.com from @jesusmesa.bsky.social www.newsweek.com/medicare-upd... #bioethics #MedSky #Medicare
Medicare update: Trump admin launching pilot program to cover Ozempic
Drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists were initially developed to treat Type 2 diabetes but have become a cultural phenomenon.
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New research suggests that polygenic risk scores predict childhood obesity; but ethical questions arise, given possible misunderstandings of relative risks & other factors. From @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/h... #obesity #BigFood #genetics #health #bioethics #ozempic #healthcare
Obesity Prediction Could Be Guided by Genetic Risk Scores
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Problems with ChatGPT in toys: my thoughts in today’s NYT's letter to the editor www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o... #bioethics #ethics #AIethics #ChatGPT
Opinion | Where Have All the Novel-Reading Men Gone?
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ChatGPT Barbie poses concerns for children's mental health -- from @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o... #bioethics #AI #AIethics #Congress #mentalhealth
Opinion | Don’t Let Silicon Valley Move Fast and Break Children’s Minds
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Read more about last week's wonderful conversation with neuroethicist Dr. Joseph Fins here: sps.columbia.edu/news/coma-co... #bioethics #neuroethics #neuroscience
From Coma to Consciousness: Examining the Ethics and Neuroscience of Brain Injury
Dr. Joseph Fins and Bioethics program director Dr. Robert Klitzman explore new ethical practices for patients in a coma or a minimally conscious state.
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Trump attacking NEJM, Science & other journals, threatening independent science www.bmj.com/content/389/... #bioethics #science #NEJM
NEJM the latest journal to receive letter from Trump appointed attorney asking about bias
The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) has become the latest and most high profile journal to receive a letter from Edward Martin Jr, a Republican activist who was appointed US attorney for Wash...
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Author @robertklitzman.bsky.social analyzes how regulations can strike a balance between protecting surrogates from exploitation and allowing people who cannot have children to become parents in "Gestational Surrogacy, the Pope and Needs for Regulations." #Surrogacy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
RFK Jr's vaccine advisory panel contain anti-vaxxers, raising major ethical concerns www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u... #bioethics #vaccines #RFKJr #CDC
Kennedy Announces Eight New Members of C.D.C. Vaccine Advisory Panel
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Testing embryos for Alzheimer's, etc?: My thoughts in Inc. Magazine www.inc.com/ben-sherry/k... #genetics #bioethics #biotech
This 25-Year-Old Biotech Founder Says His Startup Can 'Optimize' Embryos for Intelligence
Nucleus Genomics founder Kian Sadeghi is making bold claims about his company's genetic testing technology.
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RFK Jr's health report uses bad science thanks to AI -- from @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.
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New technologies for screening embryos: my thoughts on @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0... #bioethics #genetics #infertility #IVF
This start-up is lowering the chances of passing on life-threatening diseases to your children—but it will cost you
IVF was conceived as a reproductive method for people with infertility issues, but over the past decade, other patient groups have turned to it to prevent passing on genetic conditions to their child.
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Making America Great by Investing in Science: My thoughts in the @hastingscenter.bsky.social forum www.thehastingscenter.org/to-make-amer... #trump #nih #nsf #maga #rfkjr #bioethics
To Make America Healthy Again, Stop Divesting from Science
Proposed cuts to federal research funding and attacks on universities imperil the longstanding global leadership of the United States in scientific and medical discoveries and raise profound bioethica...
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The high costs of Ozempic: My thoughts in @newsweek.com from @jesusmesa.bsky.social www.newsweek.com/2025/05/09/w... #healthcare #obesity #bioethics #insurance #ozempic
How Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs are eating away at body positivity
How GLP-1 drugs like Mounjaro and Ozempic are redefining the debate about size, weight loss and privilege
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On @vox.com's Today Explained podcast discussing bringing back extinct animals: www.vox.com/today-explai... #bioethics #genetics #direwolf
Today, Explained podcast
Today, Explained is Vox’s daily news explainer podcast. Hosts Sean Rameswaram and Noel King will guide you through the most important stories of the day. You can listen to it, and more Vox podcasts, h...
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RFK, Jr.'s comments on autism are inaccurate and pathologize autism -- from @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o... #ethics #autism #autismspeaks #genetics #disabilities #disabilityrights #nih #vaccines #bioethics #healthcare #HHS #scientificfalsehood
Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Comments on Autism Take America Back a Century
Kennedy implies that disabled people are a taxpayer burden.
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