ENAS 508 Instructor: Morris Roon: TAC N203 Time: Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm
2020
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Time           Required Required   Short, newpaper or magazine Optional Optional Optional Optional Book recommendations Author
6:00pm 4-Feb   Cantor's Dilemma Morris +   Cantor's Dilemma, by Djerassi Haidt and Lukianoff. The Atlantic   Djerassi obit, NYT NIH requirements       1. Cantor' Dilemma,2.  Coddling of the American Mind 1. C Djerassi, 2. Lukianoff and Haidt
6:00pm 11-Feb   Fudging your data Morris +   Excerpt from 'False Prophets' by Kohn The Breakdown in Bio research - Harris, WSJ   p-hacking by Cornell Scientist? Buzzfeed Morris, Sullivan, Gonzalez- EJEBM 2015       1. False Prophets, 2. Rigor Mortis, 3. The Midwife Toad, 4. The Undoing Project 1. A Kohn, 2. R Harris, 3. A Koestler, 4. M Lewis
6:00pm 18-Feb   Human Experiments Morris +   Henry Beecher, NEJM 1966 What does the IRB do? in 'The Ethics Police?' by Klitzman   A Spoonful of Sugar - Smithsonian Chester Southam - NY Post       1.  Strangers at the Bedside, 2. The Ethics Police 1.  D. Rothman, 2. R Klitzman
6:00pm 25-Feb   Women's Panel Cosgrove and Galiana   Chesler - Leaky Pipeline in Academia Retention of Women in Science - Gompertz 2017   Women in Coding - Thompson, NYT ASEE data 2014-2015 Chesler - Gender-informed mentoring     1. Coders, 2. The woman who smashed codes, 3. American Eclipse. 3. Dignifying Science 1. C Thompson, 2. J Fagone, 3. D Baron, 4. J Ottaviani
6:00pm 3-Mar   Animal Experiments G Cline   Use of Animals in Biomedical Experimentation. From Macrinas Mice may be poor model for some diseases - NYT 2013   Why I use animals - E London, LA Times 2015 Genomic responses in mice don't model humans - PNAS 2013 PETA attacks a friend -speaking of research 2017 Bonus paper: Ethical Animal Use & IACUC vs repro-ducibility Some history of Animal Welfare Act - Humane Soc. 2007 1. The Tangled Tree, 2. Spillover D Quammen
  6 Mar to 22 Mar   Break Break   Watch the Movie GATTACA Break   Break Break Break Break   Alternative Ethics Novels: 1. Intuition, 2. My Sister's Keeper, 3. The Affair 1. A Goodman, 2. J Picoult, 3,CP Snow
6:00pm 24-Mar          CANCELLED DUE TO COVID19                
6:00pm 31-Mar   Neuroimaging Morris and Hampson   connectome fingerprinting - Finn 2015 on Imaging 'in Court' from "Naked to the Bone" by Kevles   Bonus article (NYT): China uses DNA -  Guidelines for Brain Scans - Morris - Wired 2019 Hinckley's brain is normal - NYT 1982 connectivity predicts later psychosis - Anticevic 2015 fMRI predicts later drug use - Buchel 2017 1. Naked to the Bone, 2. The Plot Against America 1. BA Kevles, 2. P Roth
6:00pm 7-Apr   Conflict of Interest, etc Morris +   Billions at stake in patents - Bloomberg Doctors and Disclosures - Pro Publica 2018   The Future of the Future. From "The Gene" by S Mukherjee Morris - Review of "The Gene" - YJBM 2017 YALE COI rules     1. The Gene, 2. Toscanini's Fumble 1. S Mukherjee, 2. H Klawans
6:00 PM 14-Apr   Gene Editing A Ricciardi and D Stitelman   Somatic Gene Editing - Nat'l Academies Report In Utero Nanoparticles for Genome Editing -- Ricciardi 2018   CRISPR is Eugenics - ltr to Science         1. The Double Helix, 2. Mapping Fate 1. J. Watson, 2. A Wexler
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Ethics Coffee articles
Tues Apr 21 Coronavirus is Eroding Privacy, WSJ
Restarting America, Some with Die, NYT