20 September 2018: Negative emissions and swarms under strain
This week, the ethics of sucking carbon-dioxide out of the atmosphere and bee swarms under strain. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - September 19, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts

20 September 2018: Negative emissions and swarms under strain
This week, the ethics of sucking carbon-dioxide out of the atmosphere and bee swarms under strain. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - September 19, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts

TWiV Special: David Tuller is PACEman
David Tuller returns to provide an update of his investigative work to expose the methodological and ethical problems with the PACE trial for ME/CFS. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guest: David Tuller Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Articleby Lubet and Tuller (STAT) David's Australian trip (virology blog) Sir Simon scores own goal (virology blog) Lightning process (virology blog) Letter to Parliament (virology blog) Crowdfunding is not conflict of interest (virology blog) Open letter to Lancet 3.0 (virology blog) Mayo still champions GET (virology blog) Image Credit Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees. Send y...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 17, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

Maurice Pappworth: the whistle blower
Maurice Pappworth ’s 1967 book ‘Human Guinea Pigs’ famously uncovered shockingly unethical practices within the medical establishment, including experimentation on humans. In this podcast, Pappworth’s son-in-law, Sir Anthony Seldon, discusses the life and work of Pappworth and reveals how his late wife Joanna was inspired to write a biography of her father, reassessing the importance of Pappworth’s contribution to today’s medical ethics. (Source: Raj Persaud talks to...)
Source: Raj Persaud talks to... - May 3, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Royal College of Psychiatrists Tags: Science & Medicine Source Type: podcasts

26 April 2018: Mini brains, and an updated enzyme image
This week, the ethical questions raised by model minds, and an updated view on an enzyme that keeps chromosomes protected. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - April 25, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts

26 April 2018: Mini brains, and an updated enzyme image
This week, the ethical questions raised by model minds, and an updated view on an enzyme that keeps chromosomes protected. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - April 25, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: podcasts

26 April 2018: Mini brains, and an updated enzyme image
This week, the ethical questions raised by model minds, and an updated view on an enzyme that keeps chromosomes protected. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - April 25, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts

Can we regulate intellectual interests like financial ones?
We talk about financial conflicts of interest a lot atThe BMJ - and have take taken the decision that our educational content should be without them. We also talk a lot about non-financial conflicts of interest, but the choppy waters of those are much more difficult to navigate. In this podcast, we discuss whether we should, or if we could even could, make people’s intellectual positions transparent. Arguing that it’s important to tackle this issue, are Wendy Lipworth and Ian Kerridge from Sydney health Ethics at the University of Sydney - and arguing that it’s not as easy as we think is Marc Rodwin, from Suffolk...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Can we regulate intellectual interests like financial ones?
We talk about financial conflicts of interest a lot atThe BMJ - and have take taken the decision that our educational content should be without them. We also talk a lot about non-financial conflicts of interest, but the choppy waters of those are much more difficult to navigate. In this podcast, we discuss whether we should, or if we could even could, make people’s intellectual positions transparent. Arguing that it’s important to tackle this issue, are Wendy Lipworth and Ian Kerridge from Sydney health Ethics at the University of Sydney - and arguing that it’s not as easy as we think is Marc Rodwin, from Suffolk...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 484: Float like a mimivirus STING like a bat
The TWiVumvirate discuss the giant Tupanvirus, with the longest tail in the known virosphere, and dampened STING dependent interferon activation in bats. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASM Microbe 2018 Tailed giant Tupanvirus (Nat Commun) Soda Lakes (Wikipedia) Dampened STING in bats (Cell Host Microbe) Image credit Letters read on TWiV 484 Weekly Science Picks Kathy - How to read a phylogenetic tree Brianne - No immune overload for vaccines Dickson - Flowchart of viral families Alan - Letters to a Pre-Sci...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 11, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

The tone of the debate around assisted dying
Bobbie Farsides is professor of clinical and biomedical ethics at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She ’s been described as one of the few people that is acceptable to “both sides” of the assisted dying debate. This week she joins us to talk about the way in which the debate on euthanasia has played out in the UK - and hear why she thinks it’s... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

The tone of the debate around assisted dying
Bobbie Farsides is professor of clinical and biomedical ethics at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She ’s been described as one of the few people that is acceptable to “both sides” of the assisted dying debate. This week she joins us to talk about the way in which the debate on euthanasia has played out in the UK - and hear why she thinks it’s now time for all individual doctors to make up t heir own mind, and not let either camp own the argument for them. Read her commentary on the debate:http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k544 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

The tone of the debate around assisted dying
Bobbie Farsides is professor of clinical and biomedical ethics at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She’s been described as one of the few people that is acceptable to “both sides” of the assisted dying debate. This week she joins us to talk about the way in which the debate on euthanasia has played out in the UK - and hear why she thinks it’s now time for all individual doctors to make up their own mind, and not let either camp own the argument for them. Read her commentary on the debate: http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k544 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts