A precocious playmate One of my close friends growing up used a lot of big words. My vocabulary was decent, but with her I was often outpaced. I distinctly remember one time in third or fourth grade when I was at her house playing and she dropped one of her vocab words. I wish I Read More…
Category: Policy
The Necessity of “Procedural Ethics”
It was months ago, and I’m still haunted by the phrase. I was on a call for work, where a group of biomedical researchers was discussing ethical issues in engaging sensitive and vulnerable populations in genomic research. (An aside: why is this such an important and timely topic? In genomics, there is a well-warranted Read More…
Regulation
Poor Little Bill Regulation is getting a pretty bad rap these days. At the end of January, the Trump Administration announced that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations should be eliminated (see here and here). Putting aside the immediate questions of logic and logistics of this order, the implication is that regulations are to Read More…