Policy & Ethics

Where science meets society: regulatory decisions, research ethics, public health policy, and the debates around how scientific knowledge is applied, funded, and communicated.

As summer rolls on, we're making headlines, covering everything from AI-generated health videos featuring fake doctors to the latest absurdities in America's war on pain patients.
In the days since Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Senate hearing and the accompanying 1,100-page document dump, we’ve learned some revealing facts about the man who spearheaded America’s pandemic response.
On July 29, Americans did not witness a serious examination of how the COVID-19 pandemic began. They witnessed the culmination of a story years in the making.
The recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Monsanto v.
From time immemorial, there has been a morbid fascination with conversing with those who have passed to the hereafter.
Join Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Cam English on the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:
A Litigation Boom Over Roundup
Medical panic often begins with the aesthetics of mathematics. It arrives coated in charts, percentages, thresholds, risk scores, and trend lines, all carrying the aura of objectivity and rigor.