Policy & Ethics

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.

Our public health system has a very bad habit of fighting the last war. This has resulted in a real-life version of American Horror Story.

Unlike our ancestors, who encountered it often, members of our modern society seem strangely detached from death. Many people have never even seen a dead body.