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#MeToo and Health Research Ethics
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayAs a public health researcher interested in brain injuries in sports, I was searching for peer-reviewed literature that examined cultural pressures that cause athletes to minimize symptoms of potentially serious injuries when I came across a 1994 article entitled, “A Little Pain Never Hurt Anybody:...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Let the Sun Shine into the Medical Ivory Tower
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIn 2012, I coauthored a case report about the successful use of dietary supplements in treating a case of male infertility in the American Family Physician. Before it was published, I was surprised to receive a communication asking me to disclose the fact that I had written a textbook on dietary supp...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Rounding Up Scientific Journals
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayScientific journal publishing reached a low point in November, when the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology retracted a study by Gilles-Eric Séralini and colleagues at Caen University in France. The study, published in November 2012, assessed the effect of feeding rats corn genetically modified ...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
U.K.’s Landmark Case on Withholding Treatment Affirms the Importance of Patients’ Values
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Getting By with a Little Help from Your Friends
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIf the mutilated body of one of your research subjects is discovered in a blood-soaked bathroom, who should investigate the death? If you want to be cleared of blame, it’s useful if the investigation is led by a colleague from your own department. If you were being paid by a drug company to ...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Shame and Guilt in Minnesota
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayOver the past month, a petition asking the governor of Minnesota to investigate a research scandal at the University of Minnesota has been steadily gathering momentum. The scandal in question originated in 2004 with the suicide of Dan Markingson in an AstraZeneca-funded study of antipsychotics. T...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Walk it Off, Crybaby
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayOn a recent installment of This American Life, Ira Glass asks this pressing question. Why are rich and powerful people so often the world’s biggest crybabies? Exhibit A: the whining of Wall Street bankers and brokers, who have worked themselves into a frenzy of self-pity over the cosmically unfair ...Read the Post