www.thehastingscenter.org/schoolchildr... With attention focused on misinformation about Tylenol and pregnancy, let’s not lose sight of other “baseless” statements from our leaders that put children’s health at risk.

Most troubling part about removing uncomfortable truths from history is the whitewashing that follows. If you disagree, the answer isn’t to erase them,it’s to challenge them w/ thoughtful counterarguments.🤔 NEW HC Bioethics Forum essay by Barron Lerner https://bit.ly/47EEFFN

🎙️ Episode 4 of Bioethics Chats is OUT NOW! @varditravitsky.bsky.social chats with Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss Professor at UPenn, on the “trifecta of violations of reproductive justice” & what bioethicists & healthcare providers must do to address them. 👩🏾‍⚖️📚 https://bit.ly/45sYBdn

Health insurance premiums for people with employer-provided coverage have more than quadrupled since 1999. From 2023 to 2024 alone, they rose more than 6% for both individuals and family coverage — a steeper increase than that of wages and overall inflation. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The NIH's longstanding commitment to funding research that uncovers and addresses health disparities has not only advanced our understanding of cancer outcomes across different populations but has also led to improvements that benefit all patients.

www.thehastingscenter.org/ethical-cons... The first clinical trial involving pig kidney transplants has been approved. There are many ethical issues. Read recommendations on how to address them. New in Hastings Bioethics Forum

undark.org/2025/07/21/a... Generating some kinds of humor is easier for AI than driving a car safely. Still, much of AI-generated comedy is mediocre. Interesting article by Jyoti Madhusoodanan.

www.thehastingscenter.org/collecting-m... The latest expansion in the use of DNA samples for law enforcement raises ethical and legal concerns. James Hazel explains.

Can we be sure that the research that is to this achievement would be possible now? Jonathan Moreno’s latest in Hastings Bioethics Forum www.thehastingscenter.org/sweet-vindic...

Beautiful piece. Read with a box of tissues. www.thehastingscenter.org/a-clinical-e...

More needs to be made of the distinction between trust and trustworthiness. Lower levels of trust in vaccines and ACIP are more likely a function of attempts to actively undermine trust from the likes of RFK Jr and company, not the trustworthiness of ACIP.

www.thehastingscenter.org/civil-death-... Making comparisons with the Nazis and their rise to autocracy is tricky, but we must learn from history.

🚨 Hastings in the spotlight! 🚨 HC President Vardit Ravitsky featured on 60 Minutes, where she discusses the growing trend of #eggfreezing and the opportunities and risks it raises about pausing the biological clock. 🧬⏳ Watch: cbsn.ws/3Z1owoI #Bioethics

Latest in Hastings Bioethics Forum by RobertKlitzman.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/to-make-amer...

Will bioethics continue to exist and in what form? It’s under pressure in the US. www.thehastingscenter.org/bioethics-ba...

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

Now that 23andme has filed for bankruptcy, here’s what to know about protecting your data. www.thehastingscenter.org/what-23andme...

Prescription drug prices have skyrocketed in the U.S., more so than in other wealthy countries! 💊 💰 What prices can be ethically justified? 💭 New chapter in our Bioethics Briefings. READ, bit.ly/41Xyt7i #HastingsCenter #Bioethics #DrugPricing #Healthcare

www.thehastingscenter.org/heavy-metal-... Can listening to heavy metal, or any music, make bioethicists better at what they do? This bioethicist-drummer thinks so.

www.thehastingscenter.org/terri-schiav... The Schiavo case became a battlefield in the larger culture war playing out to this day. @artcap.bsky.social dominicsisti.bsky.social

Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections www.propublica.org/article/legi... "championed by companies that make and use chemicals, along with industry groups that have long opposed environmental rules"

The CDC, under RFK Jr., will research the widely-debunked, nonexistent link between vaccines and autism. The move comes during the worst measles outbreak in the U.S. in the past five years. @msnbc.com

Very moving and revealing. www.statnews.com/2025/03/06/c...

This is so spectacularly idiotic and a dereliction of duty as an owner of a newspaper that doesn't have a publisher and has been stuck in labor negotiations for over two years. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-newspap...

Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday at national parks from California to Maine to protest the Trump administration’s firing of at least 1,000 National Park Service employees last month.

HHS orders CDC to halt some vaccine ads, saying RFK Jr. wants message focused on ‘informed consent’ Story by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/c...

NEW: Trump actions on science may affect a generation as pauses + cuts in graduate admissions begin. “We had just flown them out, we told them we love you, we want to admit you, and then everything just stopped." "It's freezing everybody into inaction." www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/t...

i feel like it's an open question whether or not the flu vaccine will even be available next season

In this @hastingscenter.bsky.social essay, I ask the #bioethics community to consider swerving out of our lane to meet the needs of patients and students who are #immigrants. If not us, who? #DACA #medicine www.thehastingscenter.org/supporting-p...

What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/01...

R.F.K. Jr.’s nomination to head HHS prompted thousands of scientists and doctors to do what they rarely do—avoid politics and speak out.

Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home

New in Hastings Bioethics Forum. If bioethics claims to be global, it needs to recognize that half the world identifies as religious. www.thehastingscenter.org/religion-wel...

Latest clinical ethics case study essay in Hastings Bioethics Forum. Balancing financial pressures and social injustices in hospital discharge planning. www.thehastingscenter.org/should-life-...

www.thehastingscenter.org/death-and-th... We find comfort in the idea that “everything happens for a reason,” but how can that be true when innocent people are shot for pocket change? Beautifully written essay by David Curtis, a medical student at Baylor.

We used to think that documenting an event provided proof that it happened. Not so. How long will it take to undo the "rinse and spin"? ‘A Day of Love’: How Trump Inverted the Violent History of Jan. 6 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/u...

#Bioethics #Ethics #PhilosophyofScience #Racism

“Medical freedom” has come to serve as a rallying cry for people who not only oppose vaccine mandates, but also see them as un-American. The movement has gained momentum, and led to concern and anger among many medical professionals.

Yes, there is, or was, an AI Jesus. Read what my philosopher colleague has to say. www.thehastingscenter.org/what-does-ai...

Attention fans of MCW-Bioethics, find out how this virtual watering hole came to be 30 yrs ago. www.thehastingscenter.org/news/bioethi...

"Unfortunately, clinician judgement has not proven very reliable when it comes to predicting patients’ risk of attempting suicide. Can AI do better?”🤔💭 New Hastings Bioethics Forum by Faith Wershba. bit.ly/3ZuQ5pV #bioethics #AI #suicide #suicideprevention

Can AI do better than doctors to predict suicide risk? www.thehastingscenter.org/ethical-cons...

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Congratulations to the 2024 Hastings Center fellows. www.thehastingscenter.org/news/hasting...

www.thehastingscenter.org/now-what-bio... New in Hastings Bioethics Forum: “Bioethics was born as a response to threats to the humanity of patients and research subjects. The integrity of the field now depends on whether it can respond to the environmental threats to humanity and the planet.”

“Beyond policy disagreements or concerns about qualifications, there’s something more foundational that bothered me” about the nominations for DOJ and HHS. Latest piece in Hastings Bioethics Forum. www.thehastingscenter.org/benjamin-car...

Who is responsible if AI makes a mistake when taking transcription of clinic visits? #Bioethics #AIethics www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2024...