Policy & Ethics

In a world of fake news, scientists tend to find comfort within the pages of the scientific literature. While peer review is far from perfect and science often wrong, the process finds the truth in the long-run.

Nearly 60 years ago, a government regulation designed to assure the public about the safety our food supply did just the opposite; it set off a panic that was completely unwarranted.

The definition of "endangered" is vague but in no dictionary does it mean an animal that does not even live in a state must be placed there, with private landowners footing the bill for $20 million, in order to keep a creature from declining in po

Is the Wild West of stem cell therapies coming to an end? Newly released guidelines from the U.S.

It's hardly a secret that opioids dominate the news.

Volunteer tourism, or voluntourism, is an emerging trend of travel linked to “doing good”.

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.