Douglas MacKay
@douglasmackay.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Philosopher by training. Research and teaching interests: ethics and public policy, health policy, immigration, and clinical and policy research ethics.
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Wow. Firing Christine Grady is a terrible mistake and certainly will not make America great or healthy.
Fauci allies, Covid vaccine officials get ax at NIH
The removals have gutted FDA and NIH leadership.
www.politico.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Wow. Firing Christine Grady is a terrible mistake and certainly will not make America great or healthy.
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Please share news of this new post. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in the philosophy of medicine and the biomedical sciences. Closing date February 2nd 2025 #philsci #philsky
Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Life Sciences - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Life Sciences in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
December 17, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Had a wonderful time giving an Ethics Ground Rounds on the ethics of public policy experiments at the National Institutes of Health this week: videocast.nih.gov/watch=55161
Ethics Grand Rounds: The Ethics of Randomized Policy Experiments
<p>Ethics Grand Rounds: The Ethics of Randomized Policy Experiments</p><p>Dean Karlan, PhD Frederic Esser Nemmers Professor of Economics and Finance, Northwestern University and Chief Economist, USAID...
videocast.nih.gov
November 22, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Had a wonderful time giving an Ethics Ground Rounds on the ethics of public policy experiments at the National Institutes of Health this week: videocast.nih.gov/watch=55161
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
"Policy-oriented Political Philosophy - New Opportunities and Methodological Challenges" 24-25 April 2025
Organised by me, Lisa Herzog @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social Dan Halliday
Abstracts by 20/12, ECR and PhD encouraged (places reserved)
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/call-...
"Policy-oriented Political Philosophy - New Opportunities and Methodological Challenges" 24-25 April 2025
Organised by me, Lisa Herzog @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social Dan Halliday
Abstracts by 20/12, ECR and PhD encouraged (places reserved)
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/call-...
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk
November 7, 2024 at 3:03 PM
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
"Policy-oriented Political Philosophy - New Opportunities and Methodological Challenges" 24-25 April 2025
Organised by me, Lisa Herzog @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social Dan Halliday
Abstracts by 20/12, ECR and PhD encouraged (places reserved)
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/call-...
"Policy-oriented Political Philosophy - New Opportunities and Methodological Challenges" 24-25 April 2025
Organised by me, Lisa Herzog @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social Dan Halliday
Abstracts by 20/12, ECR and PhD encouraged (places reserved)
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/call-...
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Evenhanded and convincing. Bravo @douglasmackay.bsky.social
Was This Job Market Study Ethical?
Was this experiment ethically problematic? Or was it a useful study involving common practices on Twitter?
www.thehastingscenter.org
July 24, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Evenhanded and convincing. Bravo @douglasmackay.bsky.social
Just finished The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard. Scott finished a PhD in philosophy at U of Toronto a few years after me. Book is fabulous, my favorite novel of the year by far, and offers an interesting take on time travel. www.amazon.com/Other-Valley...
The Other Valley: A Novel: Howard, Scott Alexander: 9781668015476: Amazon.com: Books
The Other Valley: A Novel [Howard, Scott Alexander] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Other Valley: A Novel
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April 28, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Just finished The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard. Scott finished a PhD in philosophy at U of Toronto a few years after me. Book is fabulous, my favorite novel of the year by far, and offers an interesting take on time travel. www.amazon.com/Other-Valley...