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.

California-based law firm Baum Hedlund was founded by Church of Scientology lawyers and has had close ties to the cult for decades.
In May, a cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline threatened to shut down the company’s fuel distribution network – igniting fears of a global gasoline shortage.
Social media platforms shouldn't be trusted to censor scientific “misinformation.” As we've reported in recent months, such efforts by tech companies like Facebook are crippled by partisanship and double standards.
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.