PDF | Informed consent is widely regarded as the cornerstone of modern medical ethics. However, in practice, it often fails to achieve its aims, not... | Find, read and cite all the research you need…

The Seductions of Clarity - Volume 89

From vibe coding to vibe "critiquing" -- and what this means for academics who work on controversial topics

PDF | In a recent issue of Free Inquiry, Steve Grumette characterizes my scholarly work on the ethics of child genital cutting as advancing a "dangerous... | Find, read and cite all the research you…

A new book explores the ‘evidence revolution,’ whose aim is to ground consequential decisions in evidence rather than opinion.

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A guest post (sort of) by an LLM

Research Fellow (Quantitative Research)

Adolescents sometimes express firm views about high-stakes medical decisions that conflict with those of their caregivers or clinicians, raising difficult questions about how much weight their wishes…

PDF | Following a recent announcement from Anthropic that its publicly available large language models will introduce watermarks going forward,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on…

PDF | There is a philosophical debate about whether the use of biomedical enhancements to promote or sustain love in romantic relationships is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

There is a philosophical debate about whether the use of biomedical enhancements to promote or sustain love in romantic relationships is compatible with the desirability of such love. We argue that e....

When authors use generative AI in cognitive tasks, without spending time and effort to understand the output, a gap opens between what they present and what they can defend. This gap widens as…

Brian Earp and colleagues ask what authorship should mean in the age of generative artificial intelligence (AI) assisted writing. 1 Our answer is that the author should not be kept on life support. Au...

By Udo Schuklenk Brian Earp and colleagues invited commentaries on authorship and generative AI. They offer us some good reasons for why generative AI will be forcing us to disaggregate authorship,…

International Journal of Impotence Research - Child genital cutting and surgery across cultures, sex, and gender. Part 2: assessing consent and medical necessity in “endosex” modifications

Nature Human Behaviour - The unspoken tensions that AI brings to academic collaboration

PDF | This essay examines the role of religion in bioethics through the lens of male circumcision, focusing on the work of Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, a... | Find, read and cite all the research you need…

We often feel that what we have done is somehow not in keeping with who we are. This tension, or incongruity, between the person we take ourselves to be and what that person has done seems to matter…

The recent Marburg Virus Disease outbreak in Rwanda has been praised as a public health and One Health (OH) success story. In this essay, I question this praise. I point to several knowledge gaps or i...