Assistant Professor | Bioethics and Philosophy. Views are my own and not that of my employer.
Professional website: https://sites.google.com/site/danasarahhoward/
Dana Howard
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NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill.
“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
Wow 😧
“Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were escorted by police out of the convention center in New Orleans during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research.”
NEW: The Food and Drug Administration will proceed with a “safety review” of mifepristone, one of two drugs commonly used in medication abortions.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that's been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
75% of Harvard’s NSF grants were illegally terminated.
The NSF stalled 33 research proposals from the four universities or their collaborators.
Top American universities continue to be targeted.
One more addition to the list of assaults on science.
🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
W/ my colleague Martha Kenney, new piece on what we call “AI centrism” — a position that claims to split the difference btw genAI boosterism and detraction, but still leads to its acceptance and use.
E.g.:
- “We will use AI ethically/responsibly/thoughtfully”
- “We will keep a human in the loop”
I grew up in apartheid S Africa, where muzzling of speech and encroachment on academic freedom were the norm. I came to the USA to pursue a career in science. I never thought that at this stage of my career, I would ever experience my youth again. #StandUpForScience #ADA #ADA2026
