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.

For Biden’s vaccine mandate to survive judicial muster, it must both prevent grave danger in the workplace (as I
Federal policymakers are finally starting to rethink their failed opioid policies that are based on the mistaken narrative that
How do you convince skeptics to get a COVID-19 shot?
“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
“All employers with 100+ employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly, and to pay for vaccination time.”
YouTube triggered an uproar early last week, announcing that it would take “down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including Joseph Mercola and Robert F.
I have been writing about the now disastrous consequences of withholding opioid pain medications from pain patients with legitimate needs since 2013 – well before most other organizations.
For more than a decade, policymakers and public health officials have incorrectly blamed the worsening overdose crisis on doctors prescribing opioids to their patients in pain.
Remarkable in life, a stylish Black woman who loved to cook and dance, Henrietta Lacks is even more remarkable in her after-life.