Policy & Ethics

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.

We often hear that switching to a Mediterranean or plant-forward diet can help the planet and improve our health.

For years, researchers have been discussing what to do about "junk science." Junk science is a major problem resulting from medicine's "publish or perish" culture.

I’ve written about this stupidity before. I’ll do it again next year. It will still be stupid then. [1]

Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 139 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss a wildly unethical "thought experiment."

What do pregnant women with high fevers and people with severe chronic pain have in common? Increasingly, both are being told to “tough it out.”