Chris ChoGlueck

Curious why there's still no pill for me? Listen to my recording from earlier this week. I talk about everything from the history of the Pill to Joe Rogan and manhood today.

🎥 Some highlights from yesterday's talk with Chris ChoGlueck.

Join us Friday for the last talk before spring break! #philsci

Lunchtime Talk - Christopher ChoGlueck 3/3/26 YouTube video by Center for Philosophy of Science

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🎥 Some highlights from today's talk with Marta Bielinska. Join us next Tuesday to participate in the discussion! #philsci

Join us as we sit down with postdoc fellow Margaret Farrell to learn more about her research and work here at the Center! #philsci

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Join us as we sit down with visiting fellow Chris ChoGlueck and learn more about his work here at the Center! #philsci

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Join us as we sit down with senior fellow Kareem Khalifa to learn more about his research and work here at the Center!

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My alternative is sorting us by how comfortable we are with being around other philosophers. This scale runs from "never has and ever will go to an APA conference" to "partner with/married to another philosopher."

Comfortable with being a philosopher or being around other philosophers 🤣

Arrived in Pittsburgh, excited for my fellowship at the Center for Philosophy of Science! @center4philsci.bsky.social

Texas A&M Bans Plato (updated) - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

Plato is now banned from philosophy courses as "gender ideology"? What is happening in our universities?

Glyphosate safety article retracted eight years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court Credit: Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup “does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted eight years after documents released in a court…

...which just happened even though the documents exposing the ghost-writing were from a court case settled 8 years ago. Although we now know glyphoste is likely carcinogenic, it is hard to undo decades of smoke-screening by the chemical industry.

The afterlife of a ghost-written paper: How corporate authorship shaped two decades of glyphosate safety discourse Corporate ghost-writing is a form of scientific fraud: a paper is falsely presented as the work of people other than its actual authors. When such pap…

Like an iceberg, we often only see a small portion of the impacts of scientific misconduct. Fortunately, Alexander Kaurov and Naomi Oreskes saw through the fraud. They had the insight and courage to pressure the journal to retract the paper...

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Iceberg of papers sticks out of the ocean, with divers looking at retracted paper buried below the surface.

What do you do when a highly-cited paper is actually ghost-written?

25 years ago, Monsanto paid three scientist to sign their names on a paper they hadn't written. The paper claimed that glyphosate (Roundup) posed no risk to humans. It rose to the top 0.1% of most cited articles on the chemical.

-Infertile couples are sent to gynecologists, who specialize in female reproduction. Andrologists (the male equivalent) are rare and hard to find.
-Most men don't know there are simple ways to prevent infertility, such as not smoking and avoiding tight underwear [More tips in article].

Failure to diagnose treatable male infertility leading to unnecessary IVF, experts say Men represent 50% of all infertility cases but poor understanding among GPs means it is often untreated

Why are we still so biased about fertility and men's role in it?
-Men (cisgender) are responsible for 50% of infertility cases, but they often go undiagnosed.

-Infertile couples are sent to gynecologists, who specialize in female reproduction. Andrologists (the male equivalent) are rare and hard to find.
-Most men don't know there are simple ways to prevent infertility, such as not smoking and avoiding tight underwear [More tips in article].

It's hard at the college level, so I can't even imagine at primary and secondary levels!

This two-bedroom ranch-style house will gradually become more livable as the ghost finds his rhythm. Reference #37290

Real Estate: Haunted By Teenager Learning To Play Drums

Bring back Witch Studies!

I am excited to be a Visiting Fellow at University of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science @center4philsci.bsky.social! I'll be working on a new book about male contraception, double standards in medical research, and the future of masculinity.

Call for Papers!

We invite submissions for the upcoming workshop, Social Ontology and Empirical Inquiry: Conflicts and Connections (April 11-12, 2026).

Deadline: January 15th

Details: https://ow.ly/zOr550X9T2n

#PhilosophyOfScience #CallForPapers

D. "For most patients, the study reinforces what they already discuss in the exam room: that hormonal birth control is broadly safe, and decisions should be tailored to each woman’s needs and values."

C (cont): "...But because breast cancer is still uncommon in younger women, that works out to an increase from roughly 54 to 67 breast cancer cases per 100,000 women per year — about 13 extra cases per 100,000 women, or about one extra case per 7,800 users of hormonal contraceptives per year."

C. "The study reported that women who had used hormonal birth control had about a 24% higher rate of breast cancer than women who hadn’t. ..."

B. This new study showed that the "rise is modest and short-term, with [breast cancer] risk highest during current use and fading within five to 10 years after stopping."

A. "The massive study, which was conducted in Sweden and tracked more than 2 million teenage girls and women under age 50 for more than a decade, found that hormonal contraception remains safe overall, but also found small differences in breast cancer risk based on the hormones used."

Breast Cancer and Birth Control: A Huge New Study Shows How Science Can Be Distorted - KFF Health News The study sought to answer questions about how breast cancer risk differs by type of hormonal contraceptive. Doctors say the results won’t change how they counsel patients.

Communicating risks to patients is challenging, especially around the side effects of birth control. Which of these statements do you think is most informative?

C (cont): "...But because breast cancer is still uncommon in younger women, that works out to an increase from roughly 54 to 67 breast cancer cases per 100,000 women per year — about 13 extra cases per 100,000 women, or about one extra case per 7,800 users of hormonal contraceptives per year."

C. "The study reported that women who had used hormonal birth control had about a 24% higher rate of breast cancer than women who hadn’t. ...