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.

There is a pervasive bias in academia against scientists who work in industry.
Our Northern neighbor, Canada, has faced the same problem with the use of e-cigarettes among teenagers, banning their sale on a provincial basis between 2015 to 2017 and nationally in May 2018.
Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) have now been implemented in at least four cities, San Francisco, Seattle, Oakland, and the largest, Philadelphia.
As everyone knows, local and state governments are suing the pharmaceutical companies purportedly so that the epidemic these companies started can be finally ended, Also, the companies will have to pay for past damages done and – most of all
For people in pain, the following history is familiar.  After a year of political maneuvering and under-the-table influence peddling, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at CDC issued a “guideline” in March 2016, for
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Follow the money. No better words have been used to describe understanding the tangled economic web we may weave.
Those of you who have been following the phony opioid crisis already know that nothing makes sense. Those of you who follow the madness that is called Proposition 65 in California also know that nothing makes sense.
Reporters and editors have the duty to inform the public about current events.
Somehow, it's election season again. Although the general election isn't until November 2020, campaigning began in early 2019. Basically, in America, the presidential campaign cycle is roughly two years long. This is insane.