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John Lantos
Jul 14, 20233 min read
Criticizing brain death pisses people off
The controversy about brain death really pisses some people off. Doctors, in particular, are likely to reject the idea that there is...
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John Lantos
Jun 28, 20232 min read
Who should debate RFK Jr?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thinks vaccines kill children and cause brain damage. He thinks they continue to be given only because of a massive...
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John Lantos
Jun 20, 20233 min read
Controversial Bodies in the Mütter Museum
A few years ago, when a Kansas City museum was about to open one of those wildly popular exhibitions of carefully dissected and cleverly...
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John Lantos
Jun 14, 20235 min read
The Death of a Good Doctor
I like to read books that explore the ways that doctors balance their idealism, their selfishness, and their need for emotional numbness....
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John Lantos
Jun 8, 20234 min read
When families disagree with experts
I wrote last week about the deliberations at an FDA Advisory Committee meeting about an innovative gene therapy treatment for Duchenne...
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John Lantos
Jun 4, 20234 min read
Drama about Duchenne at the FDA
The recent meeting of an FDA Advisory Committee charged with making a recommendation about an innovative gene therapy for the treatment...
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John Lantos
May 15, 20234 min read
This is not a three-parent child
A strange paper recently appeared in Nature, reporting that some (“fewer than five”) babies had been born in the UK following a...
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John Lantos
May 7, 20233 min read
Sister Senators and South Carolina Supremes
Last week, I wrote about the Republican women who stopped a life-begins-at-conception ban on abortions in South Carolina. They have...
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John Lantos
Apr 28, 20233 min read
Dobbs and Democracy in "Realville"
Roe v. Wade created a strange situation in American democracy. Politicians could posture against abortion without having to face the...
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John Lantos
Apr 14, 20233 min read
Who's Afraid of Ectogenesis?
The idea of “ectogenesis” – growing babies outside the womb - has fired imaginations for over a century. In 1923, biochemist JBS Haldane...
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John Lantos
Apr 14, 20233 min read
Is Pregnancy A Disease?
Philosopher Dan Brudney explored the implications the simple statement that pregnancy is not a disease. The paper is particularly...
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John Lantos
Mar 31, 20233 min read
Outsourcing empathy
Sharma and colleagues report a randomized clinical trial of human-only or human+AI respondents to people who sought counseling on a...
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