Policy & Ethics

How are asterisks assigned? How long do asterisks persist? Do asterisks spill over onto your family? Do asterisks apply just to you, or do they extend to your work, or what may follow from it?

Consider for a moment the following paragraph: Scientists should not sit on the sidelines and watch others fight this out. More research into the public health impacts of vaccination will provide further evidence of its deadly consequences.

Join our directors of medicine and bio-sciences, Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Cameron English, as they break down these stories:

Abstract

"The health care costs attributable to vaping are already substantial and likely to increase." So concluded the authors of a study just published in the journal Tobacco Control.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social inequities that rival biological inequities in disease exposure and severity.” [1]

Cis and Trans are words I first learned in chemistry. They describe different isomers -- compounds with the same chemical formula but different structural arrangements.  Sometimes the differences are significant, sometimes not so.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, many commentators have identified the elderly as the group most vulnerable to COVID-19.

Join our directors of chemistry and bio-sciences, Dr. Josh Bloom and Cameron English, as they break down these stories:

My esteemed colleague Cameron English has gotten into it (again) with the esteemed journalist BS artist Carey Gillam, who sees herself as the investigative savior of a poisoned world.