Policy, Science
America Needs a Marshall Plan for Saving the Future of Science
At the end of World War Two, most of Europe lay in ruins. The Nazis had been defeated but at a terrible price to both th...
Subject: Science
Cultural, Education, Medical Humanities, Philosophy & Ethics, Race, Science, Social Justice
The Folly of Apolitical Science
By Johnathan Flowers, PhD A persistent myth in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Medicine) fields argues that sci...
Clinical Trials & Studies, Genetics, Research Ethics, Science
Share Your ELSI Research Tools
by Deanne Dunbar Dolan, PhD I write today to encourage ELSI scholars to deposit their published and unpublished res...
Clinical Ethics, Justice, Science, Stem Cells, Vulnerable Populations
Stem Cell Bioethics vs. Disability Rights
by A. Rahman Ford, JD, PhD There can be no question that current FDA regulations regarding the use of one’s own stem cel...
Clinical Trials & Studies, Pharmaceuticals, Science
Vaccine Approval and Public Trust: The Dynamic Factors Influencing When a COVID-19 Vaccine...
by Berklee Robins, MD, MA & Ashley Sweet, MD, MBE Vaccines are approved when it is clear that the benefits to the in...
Gender Disparities, Professional Ethics, Science, Social Justice
Considering Systemic Discrimination in Tenure
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last week I was speaking with a friend who works at another university and we were discussing on...
Clinical Trials & Studies, Decision making, Pharmaceuticals, Politics, Public Health, Science
“Thank You for Your Sacrifice”: De Facto Rationing Based on Snake Oil Pitches
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Dale is a 45-year-old woman who lives in Southern California. She has been a patient of Kaiser- ...
Global Ethics, Health Care, Public Health, Science
Glossary for a Pandemic
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. The last time the United States faced a pandemic on its shores was in 1976, when the threat of t...
Clinical Ethics, Education, Professionalism, Public Health, Science
“If Masks Don’t Work, Why Are You Wearing One?”
by Stephen P. Wood, MS, ACNP-BC I haven’t had this question from a patient yet, but I know it’s coming. The information ...
Environmental Ethics, Philosophy & Ethics, Science, Technology
“Living robots”: Ethical questions about Xenobots
by Simon Coghlan, Ph.D. and Kobi Leins, Ph.D. Xenobots have been called “novel living machines” and “living robots”. A c...
Clinical Trials & Studies, Genetics, Informed Consent, Research Ethics, Science
The Price for Eternal Youth is $1 Million and Dumping Ethics
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. As the legend goes, in the 16th Century, when he was 51 years of age, Ponce de Leon received per...
Clinical Trials & Studies, Ethics, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Science
Randomized Trials are Deeply Offensive
This post appears by special arrangement with the American Journal of Bioethics. by John D. Lantos, MD In this issue, Ma...