Euthanasia A neuropsychiatric researcher raises concerns
Bibliographic record
Abstract
uthanasia is a deeply emotive subject.Defined in the UK as "a deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, to relieve intractable suffering", euthanasia remains illegal in most parts of the world.In a few countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium and recently also Canada, voluntary euthanasia, sometimes called assisted dying, is legal.A patient might consider euthanasia if they are suffering a terminal, irreversible illness.Nonvoluntary or involuntary (i.e.without the patient's consent) intervention is illegal almost everywhere.But, in the Netherlands, physicians can euthanise a person without consent and in some cases, a physician fails to be present.Attitudes towards euthanasia appear to be changing among the general public.Once deeply taboo, a 2019 survey by the campaign group My Death, My Decision found that more than 90% of the UK population believe that assisted dying should be legal for those suffering from terminal illnesses.Among scientists, physicians and the general public, attitudes towards euthanasia are varied and evolving -while many questions about this divisive topic remain unanswered.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.026 | 0.120 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.043 | 0.038 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".