I am ashamed to be a faculty member of the university that signed on to this agreement. Read here David Wheeler's overview of Dalhousie's fracking-policy-for-hire arrangement with the government.
Sampling children as a convenience population raises its own ethical questions.
Thanks! In jurisdictions where economic analysis is a part of coverage decisions, companies will put forward a case for a drug for a certain (young) population. But this seemed unlikely in this case (both for it being the US and for this coming from an approval decision not a coverage one).
I felt left out of things by not having any hallucinated citations yet (as a journal editor, I've only had lots and lots of completely inaccurate citations). But today I finally get to stamp that square on the AI bingo card.
I did not know Vivaldi. I've been using brave but it was work to turn off AI in brave.
I was just followed by the "American Medical Journal". This raises the question for me: can medical communications companies just call themselves "journals" with impunity?
I can't read the article ($$) -- anyone know why the manufacturer filed with trial data for 4-13 year olds?
I think society owes parents (realistically often mothers) the opportunity to move safely in the world with their infants. In addition to owing infants the safety!
(I learned this from @mmeindl.bsky.social)
I understand young parents particularly mothers describe themselves as doing "baby jail" time--they can't go out because they can't take their infants out.
I once knew someone who worked for a securities regulator. I used to think about her having a very different life from mine: she spent all day talking to people who were lying to her. (To get away with fraud.) But now, as a journal editor in the AI era, my working life starts to resemble hers.
"These tests that the IOC and a lot of sports federations are now presenting as new cutting-edge technology.
They have literally used these before and found that they were, on one hand, inaccurate in creating these false positives, and on the other hand, just in violation of people’s human rights.”
Oh this is HORRIFYING.
Congrats @vmywang.bsky.social on this important publication! #publichealthethics
🗣️In my new @statnews.com op-ed as a Public Voices Fellow on tech in the public interest with The OpEd Project, I write about how AI’s push into health care and its rapid adoption, without rigorous testing or patient and community involvement in decision-making, is deepening a crisis of trust.
Head of a sleepy orange cat resting in the crook of an elbow -- deep blue seven bays bouldering sweatshirt lettering
Saturday morning mood.
"All permanent, civilian, career federal employees were eligible to participate"
"All permanent, civilian, career federal employees were eligible to participate"
A local apocalypse. They're only forecasting -77 on the Gaspésie.
And if all that isn't enough, apparently the end times are coming.
just plainly evil.
I'm hearing this now for the first time
L'Estaca (Lluis Llach) is the best kind of ear worm and somehow cheers me up in these time.
“We’re not starting a war, we’re ending one” was a Russian talking point on Ukraine — four years ago.
It's amazing how many people (and which ones) are claiming not to be experts in international law these days. Generals. Prime Ministers. As though you needed legal expertise to know that theft and murder are illegal.
To take this seriously a sec: when your political-economic system allows massive inequality to explode, it creates a class of people who have no material problems but do have the resources & power to make their trivial irritations the central business of politics—at immense material cost to others.
