Bioethics Education
The Dark Side of Metrics: How Quantifying Life Can Make Us Miserable
(Derek Thompson Substack) – The quantified life has become a modern religion. But many of us are measuring life the wrong way. In the...
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The Rise of the ‘Human-Made’ Label: A Growing Backlash Against AI
(BBC) – Organisations worldwide are racing to develop a universally recognised label for “human-made” products and services as part of the growing backlash against...
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The Dark Side of Ketamine: When Mental Health Treatment Goes Wrong
(WSJ) – The psychedelic-like anesthetic is at the heart of a booming online industry that promises relief from depression but has also led to...
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Japan Leads the Way: World’s First Approved Treatment Made from Reprogrammed Human Cells
(Wired) – Researchers in Japan pioneered reprogrammed cells 20 years ago. Now the country has given the first-ever authorizations to manufacture and sell medical...
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The Hidden Dangers of Shingles: How a Common Virus May Be Accelerating Brain Aging
(Wired) – Evidence suggests reactivations of the varicella-zoster virus may accelerate aging and raise dementia risk. Now scientists want to know if vaccines and...
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The Dark Side of Social Media: A Hazardous Product in Disguise
(NYTs) – For two decades now, social media companies have been virtually untouchable, profitably floating above accusations that they normalize propaganda, addict children and...
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The Desperate Cry of a Mentally Ill Teen: To Live or To Die?
(The Atlantic) – A Dutch psychiatrist gave lethal injections to patients with mental suffering, some of them teenagers. Does that make him a hero—or...
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OpenAI’s Plan for X-Rated Chat Sparks Advisor Uproar: ‘Sexy Suicide Coach’ Risks?
(WSJ) – Warnings surface that the company risks creating a ‘sexy suicide coach’ if it begins allowing sexually explicit chats Citing the need to...
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The Dark Side of the Peptide Boom: How Gray-Market Drugs Are Thriving
(The Atlantic) – Welcome to the golden age of gray-market drugs. Vyleesi has never been approved for men. Some clinics advertise that they’ll prescribe...
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The Rise of Peptide Injections: What’s Behind the Celebrity Longevity Trend?
(The Times) – Millions are au fait with GLP-1s for weight loss — but now, other peptide injectables with supposed life-extending properties are exploding...
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The Future of Intelligence: Sam Altman’s Vision of a Metered Mind
(Gizmodo) – While speaking with Adebayo Ogunlesi (who happens to be a member of OpenAI’s board of directors), Altman said, “We see a future...
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FDA Advisers Recommend Updating Flu Vaccines to Target Highly Spreadable Variant
(Straight Arrow News) – A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted Thursday to recommend including a viral strain of the flu, subclade k,...
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The ‘Social Media Addiction’ Trial: Jury to Decide on Meta and YouTube’s Liability
(The Guardian) – Meta and YouTube accused of creating harmful products in trial seen as a bellwether for attitudes towards social media “How did...
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Groundbreaking Discovery: Scientists Successfully Revive Frozen Mouse Brains
(Nature) – ‘Cryosleep’ remains the preserve of science fiction, but researchers are getting closer to restoring brain function after deep freezing. Researchers attempting the...
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The Unspoken Truth: We’re All Burdens Eventually
(Plough) – As laws permitting medically assisted death advance, how will we learn to accept diminishment rather than kill ourselves? I share this experience...