Policy & Ethics

Hardly a day passes without a report of some new, startling application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the quest to build machines that can reason, learn, and act intelligently.

Bloomberg News is reporting that U.S.

In the U.S., very few regulations govern fertility technology. Sperm, egg, or embryo donation (which involves IVF) is handled by private banks, and the arrangements are contractual.

The Food and Drug Administration recently held an “

Mainstream science reporting is generally awful.

Background

The compulsion to be seen as doing something in response to perceived public health or environmental concerns is a syndrome endemic in the political class and, increasingly, the mass media.

One wonders why plaintiffs keep going through this same rigamarole - proffering shady science which, of late, has been repeatedly rejected, costing money, increasing drug prices, and jeopardizing the availability of an important drug thousands of

Many U.S. universities, including MIT, our alma mater, now require Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) statements in applications for tenure-track professorships and even for graduate school.

Before jumping to the claim of a first amendment privilege, a new study in JAMA Network Open illuminates how extensive a problem physician information during COVID might have been.