Policy & Ethics

Imagine if Dr. Oz, who peddles all sorts of pseudoscientific, nonsensical miracle cures on his daytime television show, proposed an environmental policy. That's the Green New Deal.

When we all lived in villages, knowing individual merchants allowed you to identify and avoid the cheats. As we urbanized brand names became the reputational marker.

Gwyneth Paltrow has a great career. Not many actors can claim her résumé: Shakespeare in Love, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Avengers, and even Contagion (ironically, a pro-science movie).

By Stacie Kershner, Georgia State University;

Imagine you are unexpectedly admitted to the hospital for an urgent medical condition -not something for which there is an alternate option.

Here's a first. A study that might actually disprove itself. I've never seen anything like it.

Dr. House, the fictional diagnostician played by Hugh Laurie, on the Fox TV series "House," was often wrong, never in doubt and always chose the more invasive treatment.

The New York Times has done something that it very rarely does: It wrote an editorial in support of biotechnology.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday that he wants to spend $100 million to provide healthcare “coverage” for an estimated 600,000 uninsured New Yorkers, and that includes an estimated 300,000 undocumented individuals.

Media buzz is afoot surrounding the announcement pharmaceutical companies will be raising U.S.