Revisiting the importance of drawing a line between our values and our data.
Happy new year everyone. I am starting the year leaning into hope, even as challenges globally and domestically swirl. We shall reflect on those during the year I am sure.
Meanwhile, I wanted to start the year with a reflection on values, and how those who think about health can balance moral and empiric inputs. This seems particularly germane given some of the recent swirl in the public conversation that has been pushing the idea that somehow academic work should exist in a moral vacuum, and that values do not, or should not inform the work of idea generation.
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