Researchers criticize NIH response to PETA claims

PETA Regulatory Testing , PETA

The following comments are submitted on behalf of the more than 1.4 million members and supporters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in response to the nominations of substances to NTP for study in 2007 (March 29, 2007; Federal Register 72(60):14816-14818). PETA and PCRM are committed to using the best available sc...

Opinion: The Next Generation Researchers Initiative at NIH.

Growing concerns about the wellbeing and stability of the biomedical research workforce are well documented. Over the last 15 years (since the end of the doubling of the NIH budget), we have observed worsening “hypercompetition” as more scientists vie for fewer available dollars (1, 2). Within this hypercompetitive environment, the research workforce is growing older at a rate that is dispropor...

PETA continues to claw at Columbia scientists.

Examples are not enough, learn to criticize! Criticism for Interpretability

Example-based explanations are widely used in the effort to improve the interpretability of highly complex distributions. However, prototypes alone are rarely sufficient to represent the gist of the complexity. In order for users to construct better mental models and understand complex data distributions, we also need criticism to explain what are not captured by prototypes. Motivated by the Ba...

JADE: a tool for medical researchers to explore adverse drug events using health claims data.

OBJECTIVE The objective of our project was to create a tool for physicians to explore health claims data with regard to adverse drug reactions. The Java Adverse Drug Event (JADE) tool should enable the analysis of prescribed drugs in connection with diagnoses from hospital stays. METHODS We calculated the number of days drugs were taken by using the defined daily doses and estimated possible ...