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.
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.
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.
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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.
With all eyes focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, it is easy to lose sight of the other epidemic, one that claimed an estimated 76,000 lives during the 12 months endin
