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.

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 
What should social media companies do to stem the spread of “misinformation” on their platforms?
Cameron English’s article on declining trust in federal public health agencies noted that the gene
Americans aren't all that eager to get COVID shots—at least that's the impression reporters gave us for months.
Nearly three years ago I wrote how the science behind US opioid policies was deeply fla
Mountaintops have been pushed into neighboring valleys; rivers have been made unswimmable and unfishable to get at the coal seams beneath. The fallout from coal-fired power plants has made other lakes and ponds lifeless.
Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health released Data Brief: Opioid‐​Related Overdose Deaths Among Massachusetts