Junk Science Kills (from the New York Post and The Week)
Who'll Apologize to Dead Kids?
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Thursday, February 4, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. The media gave big headlines to this week's stories on a prestigious British medical publication's retraction of an article that had claimed to show a causal link between standard childhood vaccinations (measles, mumps and rubella) and autism. Yet the coverage of the Lancet affair didn't truly convey the outrageousness of the original publication or the gravity of its consequences...  Read Full >>

Conflict of Interest (from Medical Progress Today)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Thursday, January 28, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  The pharmaceutical industry is a powerful innovative force, both in the creation of new life-saving technologies and the underwriting of academic medical research. Yet there is now a sweeping "conflicts of interest" movement aimed squarely at curtailing academic-industry collaboration in biomedical research...  Read Full >>

Taxpayer-Paid Prayer? (from the New York Post)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Monday, November 16, 2009
By Jeff Stier. It turns out that government-run health insurance means politician-decided health benefits...  Read Full >>

Christian Science and Health Reform (from FutureofCapitalism.com)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Tuesday, November 3, 2009
By Jeff Stier. The Los Angeles Times draws attention to news that, as part of the health-care overhaul, "A little-noticed measure would put Christian Science healing sessions on the same footing as clinical medicine"...  Read Full >>

An Empty Nod to Tort Reform (from the American)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Thursday, September 24, 2009
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  In an apparent attempt to sway at least one undecided Republican senator to sign on to his healthcare reform program...  Read Full >>