Policy & Ethics

Where science meets society: regulatory decisions, research ethics, public health policy, and the debates around how scientific knowledge is applied, funded, and communicated.

Join our directors of chemistry and bio-sciences, Dr. Josh Bloom and Cameron English, as they break down these stories:
My esteemed colleague Cameron English has gotten into it (again) with the esteemed journalist BS artist Carey Gillam, who sees herself as the investigative savior of a poisoned world.
"Censorship of science is deeply troubling on many levels," the ACLU argued in 2007. "At the most basic, it affronts the fundamental premises of the scientific method ... For science to advance, knowledge must be shared.
So What’s Wrong with Whole Genome Sequencing?
Hospital systems are tax-exempted in exchange for an approximately 5.9% investment in community services.
Here is where the law should play a role.                                  &n
In March 2020, the iconoclastic French microbiologist Didier Raoult announced that the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine had cured all 36 COVID-19 patients enrolled in his clinical trial.
“Our lack of desire to communicate science to the public has created major problems for the science community,” the journal Nature reported in June 2016.
The bankruptcy system proves a centralized proceeding for resolving claims, determining the company’s financial status before aggregating all claims in a common forum.