British Medical Journal (BMJ)
Viewpoint: ‘Risking metastasizing and spreading malignant racist ideologies’ — Social scientists attack Gates-funded initiative to bring AI to the developing world
Announcement of the launch of a new $5 million project to launch new artificial intelligence in low- income and middle- ...
Viewpoint: BMJ editorial on ethical quandaries stirred by human gene editing — ‘Adopting a purely scientific view risks ignoring ethical, societal, and equity considerations’
Adopting a purely scientific view of human genome editing risks ignoring ethical, societal, and equity considerations ...
British Medical Journal: Sri Lanka’s organic extremism led to an economic collapse and ‘devastating health consequences’
On 20 May 2022, Sri Lanka failed to make £63m ($77m, €73m) of foreign debt repayments. The default has made ...
Genome sequencing for newborns can save lives. Should governments mandate it?
Genomics England, a government owned company, recently announced a pilot program of whole genome sequencing to screen for genetic diseases ...
‘Politics of natural immunity vs vaccines’: British Medical Journal reports US stands alone in ‘not counting’ immunity impact of people who have had COVID in recommendations
When the vaccine rollout began in mid-December 2020, more than one quarter of Americans—91 million—had been infected with SARS-CoV-2, according ...
Viewpoint: Should we assume most health research is untrustworthy or fraudulent until proven otherwise?
Health research is based on trust. Health professionals and journal editors reading the results of a clinical trial assume that ...
Viewpoint: It’s time to take a harder look at sugar’s connection to the diabetes epidemic
Discussions about the global epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes tend to assume that these are new phenomena...In the ...
Rise of autism due to increase in diagnoses, not higher prevalence of disorder
Despite the increase in reported prevalence of autism spectrum disorder, there is no direct evidence that this corresponds to an ...
Are more men idiots? ‘Darwin Awards’ study examines gender differences in idiocy
Sex differences in mortality and admissions to hospital emergency departments have been well documented, and hypotheses put forward to account for ...