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The study, which involved an online survey of and interviews with older adults, revealed a heterogeneity of ways of thinking about capacity.
If you want to understand our politics of abortion, you must read Mary Ziegler’s recent book, “Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present.”
We should try a crowdsourced, privately-run, anonymous, voluntary, and collaborative approach to contact tracing.
By James Toomey The second-biggest outbreak of Ebola in history has been raging for eight months in eastern Congo. Notwithstanding the truly heroic efforts of the Congolese government, international aid agencies, and the Congo’s U.N.…
It is possible that particular gene drives will kill us all. But academia’s emphasis on the risks of human, rather than environmental, genetic engineering mean their heads are in the right place.
Before we can assess whether technology can preserve what we care about in telling people they are dying, we need a theory of what we care about.
The redistributive intuition of interpreting the Nagoya Protocol to apply to sequence information is appealing. But it makes no sense. And more importantly, it will put lives at risk in times of disease.
Despite being curable, and eliminated from most developed countries, malaria is the fifth deadliest infectious disease in the world. Gene drives could change that. Let’s give it a try.
The argument that Facebook’s suicide prediction algorithm should be subject to the same regulatory regime as medicine and digital health is misguided and alarmist.
By James Toomey At the end of last semester, I conducted an online survey and series of interviews seeking to understand the perspectives of seniors on questions of dementia and decision-making. In particular, I asked people to consider what…
