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Science Magazine Podcast

A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3842 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Charles Piller, an investigative journalist for Science, talks with host Sarah Crespi about a risky trial of vitamin D in asthmatic children that has caused a lot of concern among ethicists. They also discuss how the vitamin D trial connects with a possibly dangerous push to compare new treatments with placebos instead of standard-of-care treatments in clinical trials. Next, Birhanu Eshete, professor of computer and information science at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, talks with producer Joel Goldberg about the risks of exposing machine learning algorithms online—risks such as the reverse engineering of training data to access proprietary information or even patient data. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast [Image: Filip Patock/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [Alt text: Bottle of Vitamin D pills] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Joel Goldberg; Charles Piller       Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.

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Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City.

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It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding.

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Researchers at Icon Mount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many fields vital to

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advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID, cardiology, neuroscience, and

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artificial intelligence. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way. Morgan State

0:37.3

University, a Baltimore, Maryland,

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Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution, offers more than 100 academic programs and awards

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degrees at the baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels, is furthering their mission of

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growing the future leading the world. Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

0:57.4

With a four-year quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs,

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and eight new national centers of excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1

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designation in the next five years.

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To learn more about Morgan and their

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ascension to R1, visit Morgan.edu slash research.

1:22.4

Welcome to the science podcast for August 13, 2021. I'm Sarah Cresby. Each week we feature the most interesting

1:29.0

news and research published in science and the sister journals. First up this week, investigative

1:34.4

journalist Charles Pillar discusses a vitamin D trial that may have put asthmatic children at risk

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for broken bones. Next, researcher Baranu Aschete talks with producer Joel Goldberg about the dangers to proprietary

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data, government systems, and patient information when the outputs from machine learning are

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released on the internet.

1:58.8

Japan's Noster specializes in postbiotic gut microbiota metabolite-based pharmaceuticals research

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