Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.

PsyArXiv Preprints | Wider than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World onto the Brain osf.io/z9jqx_v2/

AI, doping and ethics: On why increasing the effectiveness of detecting doping fraud in sport may be morally wrong jme-bmj-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/content/51/2/1…

New paper (with Jonathan Lewis, Ivar Hannikainen & Brian Earp)—"A qualitative study of true self judgments, epistemic access, and medical decision-making" now published in the Journal of Medical Ethics! jme.bmj.com/content/early/… Free pre-print here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🌍 "USAID Cuts: A Moral Failure" by G. Owen Schaefer Slashing international aid isn’t just bad policy - it’s a moral failure. In this blog post, Schaefer critiques recent USAID cuts that could lead to 14 million preventable deaths, arguing that wealthy nations like the US have a…

Digital Doppelgängers, Human Relationships, and Practical Identity researchgate.net/publication/38…

📢 Announcing a call for commentary proposals for a new Feature Article: "Bioethics and the value of disagreement" by Michael J Parker 🗓️ Commentary abstracts due Monday 4th August 2025 and full commentaries due Friday 15th September 2025 📌 Check out the feature article and 'JME…

✋ "Keep calm but do not carry on: Ethical issues with the recommendations made by the Cass Review (2024)" by Simona Giordano This paper critiques the Cass Review’s call to limit access to puberty blockers to clinical trials, arguing that the recommendation is both ethically…

🤔 "Monash IVF Mix-ups: Who gets the child?" by Sinead Prince and Julian Savulescu After an IVF mix-up in Victoria, Australia, a woman raised a child for two years before discovering the embryo wasn’t hers. This blog post unpacks the legal and ethical chaos such mistakes…

🎲 "Using a lottery to resolve indeterminacy when allocating resources for drugs for rare diseases" by Kenneth Bond, Lars Sandman and Erik Gustavsson When tough funding decisions must be made for high-cost rare disease drugs, could a lottery be fairer than first come, first…

Important new paper; how 'garbage in, garbage out' models can have outsized mal effects on public health: "Ethics of Mathematical Modeling in Public Health: The Case of Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Africa" academic.oup.com/phe/article-ab…

New editorial 🚨Something old, something new? The Journal of Medical Ethics turns 50 | Journal of Medical Ethics jme.bmj.com/content/51/8/5…

💉 "Do vaccine mandates impair the voluntariness of informed consent?" by Maxwell J Smith and Evan Mackie Do vaccine mandates undermine valid consent? This feature article explores whether employment-based vaccine requirements render informed consent coercive and thus invalid.…

🧪 "When to create embryos or organoids for research" by Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Julian Savulescu and Brian D Earp How should we decide between using embryos or brain organoids in research? This paper sidesteps debates over moral status by showing how different ethical…

Child genital cutting and surgery across cultures, sex, and gender. Part 1: female, male, intersex—and trans? The difficulty of drawing distinctions | nature.com/articles/s4144…

Frequent AI use has nearly doubled, from 11% in 2023 to 19%. Daily AI use has grown from 4% to 8%. My additional (anecdotal) data points: leading enterprises seem to be at least 85% overall adoption among KWs, 30-50% frequent use, and 20% daily use. Source: Gallup, Q2 2025

Robot nurses that monitor patients’ condition, issue medicine to be piloted at NUH in 2025 | The Straits Times straitstimes.com/tech/robot-nur…

Now published 🚨 When to create embryos or organoids for research | Journal of Medical Ethics jme.bmj.com/content/early/…

NTU upholds zero grade for student accused of using AI in essay; panel found 14 false citations or data | The Straits Times straitstimes.com/singapore/ntu-…

Data governance must consider the interests of the global community | Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s4159…