Daniel Buchman

How does one make the existential decision to specialize in hurtling down icy death mazes head-first vs feet-first?

even feet-first would terrify me!

Honest Olympics-related question: how does one decide that they want to devote their life to become a skeleton racer? “Yes, I would like to go speeding down an ice race track at 145 km+ per hour (~90 mph) head first on a tiny sled and practice this all the time.” I am in awe of the athletes…but. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Honest Olympics-related question: how does one decide that they want to devote their life to become a skeleton racer? “Yes, I would like to go speeding down an ice race track at 145 km+ per hour (~90 mph) head first on a tiny sled and practice this all the time.” I am in awe of the athletes…but. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Catherine O’Hara, legendary Canadian comedian, dead at 71 O'Hara was known for her roles on "Schitt's Creek" star and in "Home Alone."

Legendary Canadian comedian Catherine O’Hara dead at 71

BCC | CCB

📣The Bioethics Council for Canada released its inaugural report, “Future Proofing Trust in Health Science in Canada.”

I’m honoured to have contributed to the report as a member of the Board of Directors.

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I’ve started a Substack dedicated to PUBLIC HEALTH ERRORS. Subscribe, it’s free :) itaibavli.substack.com

A Festivus pole sitting on a window sill.

Happy Festivus, all!
May your pole be straight, your feats be strong, and your grievances be few.
#festivus #fortherestofus

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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In collab with the @utoronto.ca JCB, we at @camhnews.bsky.social are thrilled to host Dr Dominic Sisti from @upenn.edu for the 18th Annual Jus Lecture (Jan 19, 2026).
His talk explores psychiatric ethics under authoritarianism and social instability.
Register: bit.ly/4rXJyRX

#bioethics #psychiatry

now feels like a test of whether those who say they’re just antizionist and not antisemitic actually demonstrate that

If only someone had spent the last decade writing about unreasonable demands for proof of causation as a key component in the #ManufactureOfDoubt.

muse.jhu.edu/article/627259

like big tobacco funding cancer research

Epistemic Injustice and Chronic Pain Reports

Today on the #projectEPIC blog Veronica de Souza Campos and Daniel De Luca-Noronha discuss the Case of Chronic Pain Reports #philsky #epistemicinjustice epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/epis...

🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402

The brain disease model of addiction and epistemic injustice The brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) is a dominant, if highly contested, model of drug addiction globally. Over many decades, researchers have …

“Has the claim that addiction is a brain disease helped or harmed those experiencing drug-related harm epistemically?”

This is also an important Q for contested conditions, eg chronic pain, which are increasingly understood as a disease.

#bioethics #stigma

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Truth.

I live by this truth.

YouTube video by the fifth estate The political war on safe drugs | Full episode | the fifth estate

The political war on safer drugs. Canada’s toxic drug crisis has led to tens of thousands of deaths and cost the health and justice systems billions. But politics keep getting in the way of solutions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJ-... via @cbcnews.ca

Do alcohol industry-funded organisations act to correct misinformation? A qualitative study of pregnancy and infant health content following independent analysis - Globalization and Health Background Access to reliable, accurate, and up-to-date health information is a crucial component of global population health. Like other health-harming industries, the alcohol industry is known to pr...

New study: Alcohol industry-funded charities still misleading the public:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Previous research identified alcohol industry misinformation about pregnancy and infant health. Dr Gemma Mitchell's new study finds that misinformation continues in Aus, Can, Ire, SA, UK & US.

I'm excited to announce the establishment of the Western University Centre for Bioethics (@westernbioethics.bsky.social), a research centre within the Faculty of Health Sciences @westernu.ca. I'm honoured to serve as the Centre's inaugural Director. #bioethics

Join us for a launch event (cont 👇)

That's why I wrote this: www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...

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The British Museum

Name tag

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An inspiring time in London at a @wellcometrust.bsky.social workshop on the ethics of predictive modelling for health. Grateful for rich discussions (esp. in mental health), insights from Drs. Ruth Faden & Erica Thompson + others. Glad I got to draw upon @mdmccradden.bsky.social's work!
#bioethics

An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

a woodcut of a bird above the text "I am sad from sports"

Trey Yesavage has set the all-time record for strikeouts by a rookie in the World Series with 12. #BlueJays

Title slide of a talk that says, Potential Benefits and Unintended Ethical Consequences of AI in Pain Management. The background of the slide has blended red, orange, yellow, and blue hues.

Thank you to Dr. Jan Vollert and the @iasp.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of this engaging panel today, alongside luminaries Joletta Belton and Dr. Antje Barreveld. It's great that the IASP recognizes the importance of ethics in discussions about pain and AI.
#bioethics #pain #stigma