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 aren't many things that unite both sides of the political aisle today, but environmental activists have achieved the impossible.
Minneapolis’s Hennepin County Medical Center finds itself in hot water over allegedly systemic practices that, in concert, might have viol
California loves to show "leadership" by putting warning labels on the things they are not yet allowed to ban.
As the saying goes, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." We know that's true because statisticians themselves just said so.
In the 1980s and '90s, environmentalists touted ethanol as ideal renewable energy because it's made from corn, which can obviously be regrown each year.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has a new leader, an Old Guard insider named Dr. Elisabete We
I recently testified to the USDA about food labels for products made using animal cell culture techniques. The testimony is below.
If you watched professional wrestling in the 1960s it would be difficult not to remember William "Haystacks" Calhoun.
John Ioannidis is the academic leading the charge to bring reproducibility and integrity back to some of our scientific publications.