Unreliable Threats: Conflicts of Interest Disclosure and the Safeguarding of Biomedical Knowledge [0.03%]
不可信的威胁:利益冲突披露与生物医学知识保护之间的关系
Steven Tresker
Steven Tresker
Medical epistemology lately has seen a strengthening of the view that the construction of evidence should be sensitive to the social context in which it is produced. A poignant illustration of this is the undue influence of the pharmaceutic...
Values in Science, Biodiversity Research, and the Problem of Particularity [0.03%]
科学、生物多样性研究与特殊性问题中的价值观
Tobias Schönwitz
Tobias Schönwitz
How to deal with non-epistemic values in science presents a pressing problem for science and society as well as for philosophers of science. In recent years, accounts of democratizing science have been proposed as a possible solution to thi...
S Andrew Schroeder
S Andrew Schroeder
Scientists have the ability to influence policy in important ways through how they present their results. Surprisingly, existing codes of scientific ethics have little to say about such choices. I propose that we can arrive at a set of ethi...
Stephanie Harvard,Eric Winsberg
Stephanie Harvard
Both the distinction between the 'internal' and 'external' phases of science and the concept of 'inductive risk' are core constructs in the values in science literature. However, both constructs have shortcomings, which, we argue, have conc...
Philippe van Basshuysen,Lucie White
Philippe van Basshuysen
In "Were Lockdowns Justified? A Return to the Facts and Evidence", we argue that Eric Winsberg, Jason Brennan and Chris Surprenant fail to make their case that initial COVID-19 lockdowns were unjustified, due to the fact their argument rest...
This Paper Attacks a Strawman but the Strawman Wins: A reply to van Basshuysen and White [0.03%]
以稻草人立论:班舒伊斯和怀特论文的回应
Eric Winsberg,Jason Brennan,Chris Surprenant
Eric Winsberg
We reply to van Basshuysen and White's criticism of our paper. We argue that they have misconstrued what our original claims were. Nevertheless, we maintain that their arguments against the position they incorrectly attribute to us fail.
Philippe van Basshuysen,Lucie White
Philippe van Basshuysen
Were governments justified in imposing lockdowns to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic? We argue that a convincing answer to this question is to date wanting, by critically analyzing the factual basis of a recent paper, "How Govern...
Kurt Blankschaen
Kurt Blankschaen
Sometimes, people who are otherwise eligible to donate blood are unduly deferred from donating. "Unduly" indicates a gap where a deferral policy misstates what exposes potential donors to risk and so defers more donors than is justified. A ...
Contextualizing Risk in the Ethics of PrEP as HIV Prevention: The Lived Experiences of MSM [0.03%]
从男男性行为者的亲身经历看PrEP的伦理困境:基于风险情境的分析
Michael Montess
Michael Montess
In this article, I challenge the risk assessment approach to the ethics of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as HIV prevention among men who have sex with men (MSM). Traditional risk assessment focuses on the medical risks and benefits of usi...