Policy & Ethics

Join Cameron English, Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Dr. Josh Bloom on Episode 148 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:

The fight over vaccines and autism has thrust the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) back into the headlin

Medicare Tiptoes Toward Medical CBD

In late December 2024, the Biden Administration went on a midnight spree of proposing or finalizing rules before the Trump Administration took office.

In an effort to tie payment to the quality rather than the volume of service, CMS instituted star ratings for both health insurance plans (Medicare Advantage and Part D, which covers pharmaceuticals) and health facilities, such as hospitals and nu

PART 1 CDC’s Dangerous Hedge on Vaccines and Autism What did the CDC just do to its autism page, and why is that scientifically wrong and harmful?

For years, we’ve been told a simple story about the “opioid epidemic”: first, doctors prescribed too many pills, then reformulated OxyContin “drove” people to heroin, then fentanyl arrived, and now a wave of ultra-potent synthetics is killing “naï

“So the left hemisphere needs certainty and needs to be right. The right hemisphere makes it possible to hold several ambiguous possibilities in suspension together without premature closure on one outcome.”

The conception of legal personhood was born from the legal understandings that “ to confer legal rights or to impose legal duties… [is] to confer legal personality….

Pennies — now about as useful as a can of sardines in a typhoon — will no longer be minted. Finally.