Policy & Ethics

If you want to know what the current thinking is in a scientific field, the best place to start is not a textbook but a literature review.

President Joe Biden promised a busy first 100 days in office. Some of his plans can be accomplished through executive orders, while others may require cooperation with Congress.

       

Somewhere up there the ghost of Lloyd Bridges is looking down at New Jersey and having a good laugh.

Even the staff of ACSH isn't old enough (1) to have watched the Keystone Kops debut in 1912.

Do we maximize to save lives or save the economy -- health or wealth?

Trigger Alert – the next paragraphs may contain political thoughts

Andrew Wakefield is the disgraced former doctor who was kicked off the UK's medical register following his fraudulent research that claimed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

#Reprinted with permission. The original post can be found here.

Most responsible embryologists claim that once safety is assured, genetic engineering would be reserved for editing deleting genetic signatures causal of disease, rather than selecting for desirable traits, like IQ or height.