Posts Tagged ‘Ethics’

Student Topples Stanford’s President

Posted on: August 4th, 2023 by admin

On 9 December 2022 we reported that the president of Stanford University, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a prize-winning neuroscientist, and former biotech leader (seen […]

EU Adopts AI Law

Posted on: June 23rd, 2023 by admin

As we have seen over the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have assumed an ever-increasing role in the […]

Stanford’s Leader Under Scrutiny

Posted on: December 9th, 2022 by admin

An important tenet of the scientific enterprise is that research published in the peer-reviewed literature is based on integrity and […]

Ghostwriting and Academic Fraud

Posted on: January 21st, 2022 by admin

If you visit this website (click here), you will read: “We sell our prepared manuscripts for publication in the journals […]

When Peer Review Gets Nasty

Posted on: June 4th, 2021 by admin 1 Comment

Today’s issue of Science highlights an astonishing story about a Dutch scientist – Elisabeth Bik (seen right, © AAAS) – who is […]

The Vanishing Radiologist?

Posted on: February 19th, 2021 by admin 1 Comment

Two years ago, we published a blog entitled “Radiologists are Toast,” a quote by Vinod Khosla, a Silicon Valley investor who had […]

DBT + AI = Progress

Posted on: November 22nd, 2019 by admin

Despite a recent report calling into question the benefits of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) – sometimes called 3D mammography – as a […]

Does 3D Mammography Save More Lives?

Posted on: October 25th, 2019 by admin 2 Comments

A week ago, USA Today published an article written by Liz Szabo (seen right) with the provocative headline, “Massive marketing muscle pushes […]

Access to Health Care

Posted on: September 13th, 2019 by admin 3 Comments

In the United States, women diagnosed with breast cancer can select different types of surgery to remove the tumour. While […]

The Emergence of CRISPR

Posted on: August 2nd, 2019 by admin 1 Comment

One of the most remarkable scientific breakthroughs since the mapping of the human genome has been CRISPR, an acronym that […]