Policy & Ethics

Big Money According to a study in Circulation:

The District of Columbia Department of Health recently posted a message on “X” to get residents to abandon nicotine e‑cigarettes. The message stated:

Just when you thought that the DEA was planning on implanting microchips in our cerebral cortexes to record every time we swallowed a Lomotil, 

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.