Policy & Ethics

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” - Alice in Wonderland

There has been a great deal of hyperbole and confusion about the recent and future direction of science and health in America, both in the applied and basic research sense, but for the public it's hard to separate what is a legitimate worry v

Five or six years ago I spent a lot more time in the car, driving from hospital to hospital. One Sunday morning I chanced upon Krista Tippett’s On Being.

It's no secret that environmental groups, anti-science groups, and the industry groups that fund them are very well organized.

We have entered dangerous times in my beloved medical profession. Non-doctor health professionals, backed by powerful lobbies, are increasingly interested in the easing of certain practice restrictions.

If you know a local politician has accepted a small fortune, $300,000, from corporations with a specific agenda, would you believe: (1) They are compartmentalizing their decisions so funding does not matter;

 

Will patients ever shop for health care the way consumers do for an iPhone?

On November 8, I published an article titled, "Whoever Wins On Election Day 2016, American Science Is Still #1 In The World." Tha

John Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford, has made something of a career writing about the quality of scientific reporting. His paper "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" is among the most downloaded articles from PLoS Medicine.