Op-Ed Society

The Moral of Effective Altruism

The doctrine known as “effective altruism” (EA) is very recent. It was introduced around 2009 at Princeton University by Matt Wage, a graduate student of the controversial moral philosopher Peter Singer. The ideas behind EA spread like wildfire, arriving in Oxford University in 2011, where Will MacAskill founded the Centre for Effective Altruism. What is […]

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Where Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Rank Among the Leading Causes of Death in America?

Based on the data available, it can reasonably be extrapolated that close to a quarter million people a year die in the US because of pharmaceutical drugs being taken, whether in error or as prescribed, putting pharmaceutical drug-related deaths as the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease.

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