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Science in Society Review

SISR features articles that tackle scientific issues from any interdisciplinary lens including business, law, and ethics. Each issue dives into a new overarching theme relevant to current events, established to promote understanding of the impact of science on society.

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FALL/WINTER 2025

USE OF CHATGPT IN ACADEMICS by Clare Malhotra

1. Ahmad, Kabir, et al. “The Healthcare Cost Burden of Asthma in Children: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study.” Value in Health, Elsevier BV, Apr. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2023.04.003.

2. Barshay, Jill. “PROOF POINTS: It’s Easy to Fool ChatGPT Detectors.” The Hechinger Report, The Hechinger Report, 4 Sept. 2023, hechingerreport.org/proof-points-its-easy-to-fool-chatgpt-detectors/.

3. “Cheating Fears over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests.” The New York Times, 2024, www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/technology/chatbot-cheating-schools-students.html.

4. Kabir, Samia, David N. Udo-Imeh, Bonan Kou, and Tianyi Zhang. “Is Stack Overflow Obsolete? An Empirical Study of the Characteristics of ChatGPT Answers to Stack Overflow Questions.” CHI 24, May 11, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642596

5. Kai Xiang Teo. “ChatGPT’s AI Detection Tool Taken down over Accuracy Concerns.” Business Insider, Insider, 26 July 2023, www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatgpt-ai-detection-tool-shut-down-over-inaccuracy-2023-7.

6. Keith, Thomas. “Combating Academic Dishonesty, Part 6: ChatGPT, AI, and Academic Integrity | Academic Technology Solutions.” Uchicago.edu, 2023, academictech.uchicago.edu/2023/01/23/combating-academic-dishonesty-part-6-chatgpt-ai-and-academic-integrity/.

7. ‌“Turing Test | Definition & Facts | Britannica.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 2024, www.britannica.com/technology/Turing-test. Accessed 9 Apr. 2024.

8. Malik, Eddy. “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT: History and Timelines.” Project Management Tips and Tricks, 9 Nov. 2023, www.officetimeline.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-ai-and-chatgpt-history-and-timelines.

9. Neumister, Larry. “Lawyers Submitted Bogus Case Law Created by ChatGPT. A Judge Fined Them $5,000.” AP News, AP News, 22 June 2023, apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-fake-case-lawyers-d6ae9fa79d0542db9e1455397aef381c.

10. Nietzel, Michael T. “More than Half of College Students Believe Using ChatGPT to Complete Assignments Is Cheating.” Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024, www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2023/03/20/more-than-half-of-college-students-beieve-using-chatgpt-to-complete-assignments-is-cheating/?sh=53bd804718f9.

11. “Oxford English Dictionary.” Oed.com, 2023, www.oed.com/.

12. Prillaman, McKenzie, and Nature magazine. “‘ChatGPT Detector’ Catches AI-Generated Papers with Unprecedented Accuracy.” Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2023, www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-detector-catches-ai-generated-papers-with-unprecedented-accuracy/.

13. “Research Guides: ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): False and Outdated Information.” Uwaterloo.ca, 2021, subjectguides.uwaterloo.ca/chatgpt_generative_ai/falseoutdatedinfo#:~:text=ChatGPT%20may%20respond%20to%20prompts,taking%20ChatGPT%27s%20answer%20as%20definitive.

14. ‌Sawdah Bhaimiya. “ChatGPT May Provide False Answers to Medical Questions: Study.” Business Insider, Insider, 5 Dec. 2023, www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-may-provide-false-answers-to-medical-questions-study-2023-12.

BIOLOGICAL DATA IN MEDICAL RESEARCH by Claire Meyer

1. “STATE AWARDED MORE THAN $900 MILLION AGAINST MAJOR PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURERS OF PLAVIX.” Office of the Governor, May 2024, https://governor.hawaii.gov/newsroom/2024-23-state-awarded-more-than-900-million-against-major-pharmaceutical-manufacturers-of-plavix/. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

2. Pigott, Ginger, and Richard Tabura. “State Ex Rel. Shikada v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co..” Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI), Food and Drug Law Institute, www.fdli.org/2024/05/state-ex-rel-shikada-v-bristol-myers-squibb-co/. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

3. Oza, Anil. “Fingertip Oxygen Sensors Can Fail on Dark Skin – Now a Physician Is Suing.” Nature, Nature Publishing Group, 18 Jan. 2024, www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00089-6#:~:text=A%20community%20health%20centre%20in,lawsuit%20against%20pulse%20oximeter%20manufacturers.&text=A%20physician%20in%20California%20is,levels%20in%20people%20of%20colour. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

4. Konkel, Lindsey. “Clinical Racism: Why some of the world’s most important medications don’t work for minorities.” New World/ Medicine, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2015. https://wallacehouse.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Konkel.pdf. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.

5. Williamson, Laura. “Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Adults Have Second-Highest Cardiovascular Death Rate in the U.S.” Www.Heart.Org, American Heart Association News, 8 Nov. 2023, www.heart.org/en/news/2023/11/08/native-hawaiian-and-pacific-islander-adults-have-second-highest-cardiovascular-death-rate. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.

6. Louden, Sarah. “Council Post: Underrepresentation in Clinical Research and Its Impact on Health Outcomes.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024, www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2024/02/01/underrepresentation-in-clinical-research-and-its-impact-on-health-outcomes/#:~:text=Underrepresentation%20can%2C%20in%20fact%2C%20make,socioeconomic%20status%2C%20gender%2C%20age%20and. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.

7. “Clopidogrel (Plavix).” Cleveland Clinic, 1 May 2024, my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs/20743-clopidogrel-tablets. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.

8. “Why Diverse Representation in Clinical Research Matters and the Current State of Representation within the Clinical Research Ecosystem.” Improving Representation in Clinical Trials and Research: Building Research Equity for Women and Underrepresented Groups., U.S. National Library of Medicine, 17 May 2022, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK584396/. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024

9. “About the Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4 Sep 2024, www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/about/index.html. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.

10. Blakemore, Erin. “The First Birth Control Pill Used Puerto Rican Women as Guinea Pigs.” History, www.history.com/news/birth-control-pill-history-puerto-rico-enovid. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.

COULD AI TAKE OVER HUMAN IDENTITY? by Sunny Lee

1. “What the Heck Is a Deepfake?” What the Heck Is a Deepfake?, UVA Information Security, https://security.virginia.edu/deepfakes. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.

2. “Apple Announces New Accessibility Features, Including Eye Tracking.” Apple Newsroom, 13 Jan. 2025, https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-accessibility-features-including-eye-tracking/.

3. Dempsey, Liam P. “Thinking-Matter Then and Now: The Evolution of Mind-Body Dualism.” History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1, 2009, pp. 43–61. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27745145. Accessed 16 Jan. 2025.

4. Dempsey, Liam P. “Thinking-Matter Then and Now: The Evolution of Mind-Body Dualism.” History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1, 2009, pp. 43–61. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27745145. Accessed 16 Jan. 2025.

5. Boden, Matthew Tyler et al. “Why Do People Believe What They Do? A Functionalist Perspective.” Review of general psychology: journal of Division 1, of the American Psychological Association vol. 20,4 (2016): 399-411.
doi:10.1037/gpr0000085.

WHO’S UNZIPPING YOUR GENES? by Leela Tickoo

1. Landro, Laura. “Your Medical Records Are a Mess. Technology Can Help.” Wall Street Journal. 24 October 2024. https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/digital-medical-records-healthcare-data-601e0173.

2. Yuan, Alda. “Derived Data: A novel privacy concern in the age of advanced biotechnology and genome sequenc-
ing.” Yale Law & Policy Review Inter Alia, vol. 37, no. 1, 2018. https://yalelawandpolicy.org/inter_alia/derived-data-novel-privacy-concern-age-advanced-biotechnology-and-genome-sequencing.

3. Alder, Steve. “Healthcare Data Breach Statistics.” The HIPAA Journal. 20 January 2025. https://www.hipaajournal.com/healthcare-data-breach-statistics/.

4. Sheikh, Knuvul. “Your Health Information Was Hacked. What Now?” The New York Times. 7 December 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/article/health-data-breach.html.

5. Regalado, Antonio. “More than 26 million people have taken an at-home ancestry test.” MIT Technology Review. 11 February 2019. https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/11/103446/more-than-26-million-people-have-taken-an-at-home-ancestry-test/.

6. Brown, Kristen V. “Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?” The Atlantic. 27 September 2024. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/09/23andme-dna-data-privacy-sale/680057/.

7. Allyn, Bobby. “23andMe is on the brink. What happens to all its DNA data?” NPR. 3 October 2024. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/03/g-s1-25795/23andme-data-genetic-dna-privacy.