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.

The suggestion that children should be vaccinated against SARS-COV-2 has triggered outrage and anxiety across the internet.
You can find the article here.
By Robert Popovian, Pharm.D., MS, and Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D.
It's too little and far too late, but the FDA appears to be acting to correct the ignorance and ineptitude that was shoved down the collective throats of America's pain patients in the form of the
The authority of public health officials, particularly concerning communicable disease, has long been predicated upon a decision made by the Supreme Court in 1905, Jacobson v. Massachusetts.
It's good to be skeptical of scientists and the politicians who listen to them.
At the risk of offending, well, just about everyone, I simply cannot let this go by.
As I’ve written recently, a spate of devices enabling people with quadriplegia to move their extremities have been approved by the