Policy & Ethics

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) was founded with a noble goal - to put an end to environmental claims based on weak observational anecdotes, like Rachel Carson claiming that she knew people who sprayed DDT in their basement

Unbeknownst to David Seidemann, a geology professor at Brooklyn College and scientific advisor to ACSH, he was placed on a hit list by the academic PC mafia.

French philosopher Joseph de Maistre is credited with saying, "Every country has the government it deserves." That may serve as a stinging rebuke to thos

How should scientists respond to the rising tide of anti-scientific sentiment in the world?

On Monday, a paper published by the UK medical journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology made waves claiming that endocr

I was blind, but now I see.  

It's long been known in the United States that anti-vaccine sentiment comes down along political lines the same way climate change does. Anti-vaccine sentiment also correlates strongly with anti-agriculture and anti-energy beliefs.

The measles outbreak at Disneyland, which came to the public's attention in January 2015, prompted several states to tighten their vaccine exemption laws.

Michael Pollan, food activist and journalist, is the proverbial man trapped in the past in his latest piece for th

There are few worse ways to awake a person than with a needle stick in the arm to draw blood.