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Science Utopia: Some thoughts about ethics and publication bias
This week’s edition of Psych Wednesdays was written by Michael Kraus and was originally published on Psych Your Mind on September 24, 2012. Psychology’s integrity in the public eye has been rocked by...
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Science in Sacramento: Update on Prop 37
This post is part of a series called “Science in Sacramento” which examines how science effects California state policy and vice-versa. A supporter of GMO labeling takes to the streets of San Francisco...
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The ethics of Alzheimer’s
Auguste D aus Marktbreit, the first recorded sufferer of Alzheimer’s disease, in 1902. Though the authors of the BSR blog don’t comment on the topic frequently, there’s an undercurrent of ethical...
View ArticleDividing Lines
Income inequality in the United States has soared to a record level, the highest since 1928 according to Pew Institute surveys. Eighty percent of Americans worry about rising inequality. UC Berkeley...
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Automating us
You are heading home to Berkeley after a long day of work in San Francisco, lying back comfortably with your iPad in hand as your self-driving car speeds autonomously over the Bay Bridge. Unexpectedly,...
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CRISPRcon: diverse voices debate the future of genome editing
It’s not every day that a scientific conference hosts a panel discussion including a futurist, a director of a non-governmental organization, a pastor, an environmentalist, and a pig farmer—but...
View ArticleThe Moral Responsibility of Genome Editing
It’s 2018, and we’re on the cusp of a revolution—a revolution in biotechnology, that is. Advances in genome editing that allow scientists to make highly specific changes to DNA sequences, propelled...
View ArticleNavigating Complex Field Research Ethics in Botswana
I was conducting my first research interviews at the Botswana Innovation Hub in the summer of 2017, working to develop an ethnographic evaluation study of the Botswana innovation ecosystem. After each...
View ArticleAbilify MyCite: The Ethically Hard Pill to Swallow
“I stopped taking the medication,” he told me. Recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, my friend lasted only a month on a new cocktail of pills containing lithium, sleeping medication,...
View ArticleCRISPR Consensus?
Medical researchers have been practicing gene therapy, the transfer of DNA into the genome of a living cell as a treatment for a given disease, since the nineties. These treatments could drastically...
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