A take no prisoners approach to bioethics consulting. Because taking prisoners would be unethical. Tweets by Kelly Hills (KH) & Nicholas Evans (NE).
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RogueBioethics retweeted
‘How to handle a pandemic is not, and should not be, a matter that is up to individuals…Because when it comes down to it, these are not the sorts of individual ethical choices we should have to make.’ - @rocza of @RogueBioethics theguardian.com/us-news/2021…
Available to preorder, @neva9257’s new book tracks neuroscience innovations in national security, especially law enforcement, intelligence collection, & armed conflict, & looks at ethical questions & policy about how we can, & should, use these innovations.routledge.com/The-Ethics-of-…
Good question. I’ve seen very little engagement from media—or bioethicists. This should concern everyone. #bioethics -KH
Meanwhile, I’m surprised to hear they’re even tracking at most colleges. (Gonna go out on a limb and guess it’s not actually the colleges doing testing and tracking in most cases, which is problematic.) -KH
It was really fun to listen to this talk from the other room…but I am sad we weren’t able to be there. I miss Germany! (I need more Bautzen mustard. 😂) -KH
@neva9257, assistent professor @UMassLowell and co-founder of @roguebioethics is talking about ethics of testing autonomous vehicles:
"How much risk should we expose to public to when testing vehicles from which they may not directly benefit?"
#shift2020 #shiftmobility
And sometimes people are just abusives asses who should have assault charges brought against them.
I think we can trust Dr Willett knows whether or not the patient was in distress or just abusive, and we SHOULD support her, not follow the cop in shaming her. -KH
This is really interesting, and if we see this trend play out in other countries (and we should, so long as circumstances remain similar), it ought to lead to a reckoning on how influenza outbreaks are managed. (Note: I said OUGHT. I know the realities…) -KH
Nice work, #Queensland! Because of your great work in following good hygiene practices, socially distancing and getting the #flu shot, flu numbers this year are significantly lower than what they have been in the last five flu seasons and are 84% lower than this time last year!
"We often assume our friends are like us, that “what I think is risky is what they think is risky, and what they think is common sense is what I think is common sense. It just doesn’t work like that."" -KH, quoting KH 😉
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When you still don’t know what you’re talking about, but can’t be arsed to put down the shovel you’re digging that hole with. -KH
RogueBioethics retweeted
We shouldn’t be only thinking of students and faculty when it comes to opening universities. Housekeepers, janitors, food service and tons of other staff are being put in an impossibly hard situation. newsobserver.com/news/local/…
And if you pop on over to Nick's personal twitter account, @neva9257, you can read his own words about his first foray into the philosophy of disability and why it's so important to him-us, really. -KH
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Nick has a new paper out, along with @joelmreynolds and Kaylee Johnson, which highlights "some problems for accounts of #disability and enhancement that have not been sufficiently addressed in the literature."-KH #bioethics Read it here: jme.bmj.com/content/early/20…
The choicest of quotes: --NE #COVID19 #bioethics
![Text: “We're in an age where, you know, the departments of health are suggesting people do online orgies and [use] glory holes… and when those are the pieces of advice being given by public health [officials], I think people should feel like they have full permission to ask the questions that they need to to feel safe, Hills said.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Edj5pj1XgAgnW9k.png?name=orig)
ALT Text: “We're in an age where, you know, the departments of health are suggesting people do online orgies and [use] glory holes… and when those are the pieces of advice being given by public health [officials], I think people should feel like they have full permission to ask the questions that they need to to feel safe, Hills said.
“Transparency should 100 percent be rewarded right now, even if that transparency is telling you something you didn’t want to hear,” @rocza talks about the ethics of navigating intrapandemic socializing. -NE #COVID19 #bioethics vice.com/en_us/article/dyzxa…
Wasn’t there a third RCT paper this week that reiterated HCQ was a flop, too? It’s kind of amazing how people want to clutch at it so hard. (Also leads me to believe science is like sausage, and most people don’t want to know how it’s made.) -KH
RogueBioethics retweeted
It’s really stunning that #ai systems are being deployed in clinical settings to flag #COVID19 cases for various kinds of treatment. How are these systems validated? What training sets do they use? Absolutely wild #researchEthics #medicalEthics #MedicalAI
Possibly one of the least talked about healthcare scandals of the COVID-19 panademic: not only are patients not informed about the AI systems impacting their care, these systems are often poorly developed & reported and hardly tested
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OMFG yes, how can we possibly be having these debates, still? It's especially questionable to argue against ethics review for step wedge trials right now, when it will very likely be one of the COVID19 vaccine trial options (as happened in West Africa for EVD). -KH
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It's ALMOST like the way we do things when it comes to medical research is slow for a reason, and really shouldn't be "disrupted." 🤔 -KH
RogueBioethics retweeted
I’m not a clinician, but I wonder what other hypotheses could have been tested if we had not plowed tens of thousands of patients and dozens of studies into this one intervention. And when will there be enough evidence to revisit ongoing and planned trials of the same?
Just published @TheLancet
The largest study of hydroxychloroquine shows a significant increase in death (~35%) and >2-fold increase of serious heart arrhythmias. ~96,000 patients, ~15,000 on HCQ or CQ from 671 hospitals, 6 continents.
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Here is a paper from 2017 on the laws ethics that affect clinical trials in African nations. It's definitely an overview, and I quibble with the flexible overlap of laws and ethics (which are two very different things), but it's a good place to start. -KH
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