Arthur Caplan

Retiring but not disappearing Professor

[Inside Precision Medicine @Inside_PM]

🎙️The Right to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Health

In this podcast episode bioethicist @ArthurCaplan joins @GrinsteinJ to explore the conflict between communitarianism and autonomy, disability and perfection, and moral flashpoints shaping medicine.

https://t.co/Fb7OI9ymFK

[Arthur Caplan @ArthurCaplan]

L;ESSONS IN FREE SPEECH FOR HITLER YOUTH

[Dr. Ali Khan @DrAliSKhan]

North Carolina school threatens to withhold valedictorian's HS diploma after the following extemporaneous comment: Whether it's the millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan and so many other countries around the world, or the families being torn apart by (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), these are not distant issues. They are happening right now as I speak. My point is, we're not given a voice to stay silent." https://t.co/kmWRlu0D9U

[nature @Nature]

Scientists are raising the alarm about a White House proposal that could fundamentally recast federally funded science. The proposed rules would put political appointees in control of all federal grants and de-emphasize peer review, among other measures.

https://t.co/xvOLHPiP4T

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

It turns out the real doctors who care for people in sickness and in health were right. And it turns out that a conspiratorial environmental lawyer who used too much drugs and who just wanted to be famous - RFK - isn't a medical expert.
https://t.co/uPPMbw3nqB

[Arthur Caplan @ArthurCaplan]

raw milk and bacon with lard sandwiches?

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Trump: “You will no longer pay rent. You no longer have to pay interest on your mortgage, and no longer gonna have to pay for food. I'm gonna give you free food.”

[Arthur Caplan @ArthurCaplan]

how to not hunt fraud

[ProPublica @propublica]

The DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
https://t.co/F92hGp0SSO

[Arthur Caplan @ArthurCaplan]

#vulgarian definition #trump

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[Arthur Caplan @ArthurCaplan]

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[Arthur Caplan @ArthurCaplan]

Telehealth GLP-1 dosing errors are hospitalizing patients: KFF https://t.co/Qx0SnUDuVw

[Healio @GoHealio]

❗CMS has issued an interim final rule that implements new #workrequirements for adults on #Medicaid. Experts expressed concerns about the new rule, particularly medical frailty exemptions.

🔗Read more, with insight from @DarshaliVyas and @ArthurCaplan: https://t.co/3iPcuvK6Wd

[Arthur Caplan @ArthurCaplan]

is architectural abuse a felony??

[ABC News @ABC]

President Trump is floating the possibility of keeping the UFC arena on the White House South Lawn — built for a series of fights on his birthday and Flag Day — permanently.

Read more: https://t.co/PdI3ZarEYr

[Arthur Caplan @ArthurCaplan]

https://t.co/y7DRmv3VcQ

Coming to your town?   Bullshit history !  Content provided  by 4th rate institutions! where are legit history voices??

[Arthur Caplan @ArthurCaplan]

But, whatever the underlying rationale, Trump's minions (not Trump, he is a scientific illiterate) are out for blood and doing well in the effort.  Science is proving utterly inept at fighting back, siloed, in denial and too reliant on fed govt $$ to even try.

[Arthur Caplan @ArthurCaplan]

The administration is killing science. What is mysterious is why.   His close advisors at Heritage who wrote project 2025 see science as a threat to religion, spirituality and faith.
Others see science as just lefty ideology or as a prisoner to huge corporate influences (RFK Jr)

[Arthur Caplan @ArthurCaplan]

People Can't Stop Talking About Dr. Oz's "Insane" Reason For Why He Says Trump Keeps Going To The Doctor - BuzzFeed. His answer is stupidity personified. This is monitoring for trouble out of concern not prevention https://t.co/4ZYGfZWlmd

[Arthur Caplan @ArthurCaplan]

Freedom 250 truck in CT town this week; Backlash cancels nearby stop. Phony history on tour at public expense. Content prepared by third rate institutions https://t.co/y7DRmv3VcQ

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

WAKE UP, AMERICA.

The Supreme Court majority just admitted it’s a PARTISAN operator willing to TORCH the rule of law to advance its ideological agenda.

In an unprecedented move with a brief UNSIGNED order, it: 1) IGNORED the central basis of the lower court’s decision, 2) DISREGARDED its own precedent (that it had assured just weeks ago remained good law), and 3) REWARDED Alabama's defiance of a federal court order.

All to help Republicans squeeze out one more seat in the midterms. And on Election Day for millions of Americans no less!

This is sick.

“Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court's decisionmaking.” — Thurgood Marshall

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

If implemented, this would be one of the most significant shifts in federal research governance in modern U.S. history.

The concern is not simply budget cuts. It is political review moving into individual grant decisions - fundamentally changing how American science operates.

[Sarah Karlin-Smith @SarahKarlin]

CMS Admin Dr. Oz repeats unsubstantiated claims of the savings Trump's drug pricing plans have achieved at White House presser today. Don't just repeat their claim. More info here: https://t.co/RxSpJMXpPO

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

The main claim — that the US recommends that all kids are vaccinated against many more pathogens than children in peer nations is not true. I did an analysis of 37 other countries. The US is not an outlier. https://t.co/xIxtTJCJAR