Policy & Ethics

Nearly 60 years ago, a government regulation designed to assure the public about the safety our food supply did just the opposite; it set off a panic that was completely unwarranted.

The definition of "endangered" is vague but in no dictionary does it mean an animal that does not even live in a state must be placed there, with private landowners footing the bill for $20 million, in order to keep a creature from declining in po

Is the Wild West of stem cell therapies coming to an end? Newly released guidelines from the U.S.

It's hardly a secret that opioids dominate the news.

Volunteer tourism, or voluntourism, is an emerging trend of travel linked to “doing good”.

The World Health Organization group International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is suffering through a period of critical upheaval.

Like a coffee stain on a new carpet, Karl Marx stubbornly refuses to go away.

ACSH has been around since 1978 but I doubt we have ever seen anything like this before.

In 2015, the American Council on Science and Health joined every reputable science body in being critical of yet another International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) monograph.

The EPA insists that poor air quality in America is a terrible killer and must be regulated regardless of the economic burden imposed. But with no evidence to justify such a claim, this is nothing more than a Noble Lie.