Policy & Ethics

A few weeks ago, we received an email from Dutch journalist Jannes van Roermund, who works for the newspaper De Telegraaf.

We like to complain about our healthcare system. Mostly, the complaints are directed at the outrageous costs and the slippery, backstabbing nature of insurance companies. But rarely do we complain about the quality of our healthcare.

Thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown, pornography use is up. But that's not what is meant by the term "pandemic porn."

By Christopher J.

Johnson & Johnson has announced that it will stop selling talcum baby powder in the United States and Canada. Why?

A few years ago, I gave a talk at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland titled "Science Communication in an Age of Fake News." The focus of the talk was on revealing the high prevalence of junk science, particularly in the media, and ways in w

The mayor of Los Angeles has said that his city will "never be completely open until we have a cure" for the coronavirus.

The Imperial College Pandemic Model

Several years ago, when I first became a science communicator, I was giving a talk in Seattle about GMOs.

We grew up in an era when the mainstream media reported the news straightforwardly, but now much of it is bought and paid for.