5 stages of grief for our democracy: My new piece in @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/heal...

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...

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

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...

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

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

The CRISPR Babies: My thoughts in the new Science History Podcast www.sciencehistory.org/stories/dist... #bioethics #genetics #healthcare #eugenics

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

What really causes autism and what we should about it: my essay from the @hastingscenter.bsky.social forum

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read more about last week's wonderful conversation with neuroethicist Dr. Joseph Fins here: sps.columbia.edu/news/coma-co... #bioethics #neuroethics #neuroscience

Trump attacking NEJM, Science & other journals, threatening independent science www.bmj.com/content/389/... #bioethics #science #NEJM

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

Testing embryos for Alzheimer's, etc?: My thoughts in Inc. Magazine www.inc.com/ben-sherry/k... #genetics #bioethics #biotech

RFK Jr's health report uses bad science thanks to AI -- from @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

New technologies for screening embryos: my thoughts on @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0... #bioethics #genetics #infertility #IVF

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

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

On @vox.com's Today Explained podcast discussing bringing back extinct animals: www.vox.com/today-explai... #bioethics #genetics #direwolf

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

Catch my conversation with @randycohen48.bsky.social for Person Place Thing here: personplacething.org/530-robert-k... #healthcare #spirituality #religion #chaplains #newguinea #prion #kuru #Creutzfeldt-jakobdisease #cjd #neuro #stoneage #bioethics

Bioethicist @RobertKlitzman.bsky.social of @ColumbiaUniversity.bsky.social School of Professional Studies takes us from New Guinea to Central Park to a hospital bed. Listen: personplacething.org

On @cnn.com this morning: my thoughts on bringing back extinct animals www.cnn.com/2025/04/12/u... #bioethics #direwolf #genetics

ICYMI: my thoughts on bringing back extinct animals from ABC News Good Morning America abcnews.go.com/US/dire-wolf... #bioethics #genetics #medsky #direwolf

23andme selling your data: My thoughts in @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/heal... #bioethics #genetics #privacy #healthcare #23andme #insurance

Colossal Biosciences achieved a scientific first -- revived an extinct species: the Dire Wolf! 🐾 🔬 But just because we can bring species back… does that mean we should?🤔 NEW Hastings BF essay by @robertklitzman.bsky.social, READ bit.ly/4lsqica #HastingsCenter #Bioethics #DeExtinction #DireWolf

Bringing back extinct Animals: my essay via @hastingscenter.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/de-extinctio...