Justin Bernstein,Athmeya Jayaram,Brian Hutler
Justin Bernstein
Respecting individual liberty is a foundational principle of both liberal democratic theory and public health ethics. It is not always clear, however, what role liberty should play in evaluating restrictive public health policies such as th...
Laura Specker Sullivan
Laura Specker Sullivan
Autonomy is a core concept for medical decision-making in the United States. Yet as issues of social justice have been increasingly appreciated by American bioethicists, so has the difficulty of reconciling autonomy with unjust contexts. Bi...
Editor's Note, June 2025 [0.03%]
编者按，2025年6月
Quill R Kukla
Quill R Kukla
Bridget Pratt
Bridget Pratt
Climate change and worsening environmental degradation remain the greatest threat of our time. How to address the environmental crisis ethically and equitably is one of the most important questions facing the global community. Conceptions o...
The Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial as the Gold Standard in Psychedelic Research: Neither Feasible Nor Desirable [0.03%]
双盲随机对照试验作为迷幻剂研究的金标准：既不可行也不可取
Daniel Villiger
Daniel Villiger
Double-blind, randomized, controlled trials (DB-RCT), if designed and conducted well, are widely considered the gold standard in medical research for purposes of establishing causal efficacy. Their logic is compelling: by balancing out all ...
"We Don't Want You Here": A Critical Examination of Staring, Disability, and the Inaccessible Environment [0.03%]
“我们不希望你在这里”：对凝视、残疾与无障碍环境的批判性审视
Natalie Hardy
Natalie Hardy
Disability scholars generally categorize staring as a stigmatizing action that has negative psychosocial impacts on disabled people. Yet, interestingly, staring is also oftentimes understood as natural, understandable, and is even encourage...
The Seriousness of Mistakes and the Benefits of Getting it Right: Symmetries and Asymmetries in the Ethics of Epistemic Risk Management [0.03%]
错误的严重性与做对的好处：表征知识风险管理体系中的对称性和不对称性伦理学问题
Torsten Wilholt
Torsten Wilholt
Scientists have to make trade-offs between different types of error risks when making methodological decisions. It is now widely recognized (and not disputed in this article) that in doing so they must consider how serious the consequences ...
Eric Winsberg
Eric Winsberg
There are many proposals in the literature on how to "manage values." Many of these proposals have in common the assumption that the relevant values in science can be "packaged for transfer": they can be put in an envelope for scientists to...