Policy & Ethics

The World Health Organization group International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is suffering through a period of critical upheaval.
Like a coffee stain on a new carpet, Karl Marx stubbornly refuses to go away.
ACSH has been around since 1978 but I doubt we have ever seen anything like this before.
In 2015, the American Council on Science and Health joined every reputable science body in being critical of yet another International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) monograph.
The EPA insists that poor air quality in America is a terrible killer and must be regulated regardless of the economic burden imposed. But with no evidence to justify such a claim, this is nothing more than a Noble Lie.
A short while ago, despite two hurricanes and a shooting in Las Vegas, advocacy journalists in North Carolina were spending time attempting to Gerrymander the word "conservationist" in order to make sure an expert in favor of natural gas
There is little doubt that there is a war going on in the US - a war against doctors, a terrible development by any measure  And there is plenty of evidence to back this up.
I wanted to spend a moment talking about the opioid crisis from a physician prescriber perspective.
Every so often, the world debates whether or not it should exterminate the only known samples of smallpox. So far, we always have decided to keep them around, just in case we need them for research or vaccine development.