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Key question - what does this unanimous jury decision supporting his defamation charges imply or suggest about the validity of the decisions by @WhiteheadInst @MIT and @hhmi_science to terminate @DMSabatini employment based mainly on her claims?
Cancel culture alive and well among Colombia students unherd.com/2026/10/do-my-cla…
Another brilliant analysis of why vaping studies underestimate the benefits of vaping by @ArielleSelya arielleselyaphd.substack.com…
Join me to hear about a dramatic episode in the history of psychiatry from @ericcaplan superb biography of conflict of visions in the field. At @PoliticsProse Conn Ave NW at 5 pm Sunday Oct 18
This Sunday @PoliticsProse historian @EricCaplain presents his powerful biography of The Osheroff incident and its impact on psychiatry
New issue edited by @jflier. Important articles and a debate on medicine and politics muse.jhu.edu/issue/40194
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A extremely well deserved Nobel Prize for discoveries that have dramatically changed our ability to study and understand the brain. @NobelPrize
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
Nice overview. Suggesting TMS is oversold polypharmacy.substack.com/p/…
Great (maddening ) anatomy of grant making arielleselyaphd.substack.com…
Allow me to be the millionth person who recommends this astute, and, in the last section, devastating essay. musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/…
Pinker’s wise collegiality on grand display quillette.com/2026/09/26/an-…
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"Stakeholders without a stake" - my take on the questionable stakeholder legitimacy of tobacco control activists and the arrogance of dismissing consumers' insights.
Consumers are the stakeholders with the greatest stake.
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The Education of Nikole Hannah-Jones by Roland Fryer wsj.com/opinion/the-educatio…
If this article isn’t a plea for compensating living donors, I don’t know what is. Current system corrupt and desperate. What I Found Out About Organ Donation Shocked Me nytimes.com/2026/09/18/opini… via @NYTOpinion
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MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.
A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.
Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.
The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.
The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.
Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.
The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.
The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.











