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Opinion: Deductive Science Is Needed for Public Health
Giuseppe Carruba | Jun 27, 2018 | 3 min read
Big data and empirical approaches to understanding diseases provide a limited picture of pathogenesis.
Our Radiation Protection Policy Is A Hazard To Public Health
Theodore Rockwell | Mar 2, 1997 | 7 min read
Where public-health policy is concerned, it makes sense to be conservative. But when we try too hard, we may actually do more harm than good. An egregious example is our policy on low-level ionizing radiation, primarily gamma rays and neutrons. Regulations are based on the premise that any amount of radiation, however small, must be considered hazardous. This premise was not derived scientifically, and the policy based on it is not conservative but is actually detrimental to public health. Il
President Biden Proposes Creating Two DARPA-Like Agencies
Lisa Winter | Apr 12, 2021 | 2 min read
These new initiatives would tackle problems relating to health and climate.
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Texas Taxpayers to Give Cancer Research Another $3 Billion
Kerry Grens | Nov 7, 2019 | 2 min read
Voters approved a measure to double the state’s Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas.
Research Funds Reallocated to Child Immigrant Detention Centers
Kerry Grens | Sep 21, 2018 | 1 min read
Money from the NIH’s budget, among others, will be used to care for kids in federal custody.
Opinion: A New Global Health Agenda
Edward E. Partridge, Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis, and Ralph L. Sacco | Oct 4, 2011 | 4 min read
After a historic UN meeting, global efforts must be coordinated against noncommunicable diseases to thwart the world’s leading causes of death and disability.
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The Scientist Staff | Feb 22, 1987 | 10+ min read
For psychiatrist David A. Hamburg, an early interest in biobehavioral aspects of stress and aggression has broadened to embrace many issues in education, health and public policy. After brief stints at Walter Reed Army Institute of Medical Research and as chief of the adult psychiatry branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, he established the psychiatry department at Stanford University's medical school in 1961. Hamburg left Stan-ford in 1975 to become president of the Institute of Me
Top Breast Cancer Researcher Didn’t Disclose Financial Ties
Ashley Yeager | Sep 10, 2018 | 2 min read
José Baselga of Memorial Sloan Kettering took millions of dollars from drug and health care companies but did not report the payments in his research articles.
Opinion: Understanding and Coping With Rising Publication Costs
M. Bishr Omary and Theodore S. Lawrence | Sep 1, 2017 | 6 min read
As article processing charges top $5,000 at some research journals, authors and institutions have means of negotiating better deals or finding less expensive options.
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The Unscientific King: Charles III’s History Promoting Homeopathy
Sophie Fessl, PhD | Sep 29, 2022 | 6 min read
King Charles III has a long history of promoting homeopathic or alternative medical treatments not supported by scientific evidence.

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