Policy & Ethics

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# Reprinted with permission. The original article can be read in Human Events.
One of the greatest things about the Church -- and religion in general -- is its ability to inspire positive social change.
The Washington Post has reported on Dr.
I am a technically trained non-physician who advocates on behalf of patients who are now being widely denied safe and effective opioid therapy for their pain.  I’ve been active in this field for 25 years, communicating with tens of thousands
Good Morning PROP members (1). Did you sleep well? I sure hope so, but if not, it's understandable.
Environmentalists often oppose the very solutions that they once proposed.
"Clinical trial" is just a nice-sounding term for "human experiment." We don't like to use that term because it carries a lot of baggage, like the torturous and murderous "experiments" conducted by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
Last week, anti-vaxxers protests shut down the mass vaccination program underway at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
Several months ago, we ran a story on the best (worst?) conspiracy theories about the coronavirus.