Policy & Ethics

We accept that regulations are necessary for clean water, clean air, safe food, and medicines. And our readers are familiar with complaints that regulations are based on the wrong criteria, too strict, or too lax.

Adherence to scientific principles is the standard -   along with integrating reliable and valid scientific data. But data morphs, jello-like, during an enfolding, dynamic pandemic.

Regardless of your position on the death penalty, I believe that most of us would be horrified by the cruelty and incompetence in a recent case at an Alabama prison, regardless of any sympathy (or the lack thereof) one might have for a t

"In my mind, what the DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration] is essentially doing is telling a diabetic who's been on insulin for 20 years that they no longer need insulin and they should be cured.

Let’s begin by looking at the findings of the “study.” I am putting study in quotes because this is just another example, albeit an especially bad one, of mining a database created and maintained by others for academic purposes.

A few weeks ago, our Board of Scientific Advisor Susan Goldhaber wrote about a better way to determine the toxicity of compounds than using animal studies. A scient

The review, summarized in the CDC Moving Forward Summary Report, is just the beginning of their institutional soul-searching.

Over the last few years, enrollment in Medicare Advantage has grown significantly; nearly half of Medicare beneficiaries now belong to one of the 43 plans available. Why not?

Of course, the downside with relying on naturally acquired immunity (and forgoing vaccination) – is that you must first get COVID. But now that there’s Paxlovid, who cares? Right?

The article begins with a bit of hyperbole in explaining the $2.5 billion spent on social determinants of health (SDOH),