Science Education & Policy

Are senior doctors who help drug companies sell their drugs independent experts or just drug representatives in disguise, asks Ray Moynihan from the University of Newcastle in Australia, in this week…

Enactment of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008 is a boon to individual patients and for genetic research, write Kathy Hudson, M.K. Holohan, and Francis Collins in the June…

NASA hopes to use the the new Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures film WALL-Eto promote interest among schoolchildren in science and technology. They have signed a Space Act Agreement for a series…

How is it that a statement by the Vatican has delayed my annual report to the National Institutes of Health? Not being Catholic, I generally don't pay much attention to Papal announcements, but maybe…

LONDON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to reports in the media that Obecalp, a placebo pill for children, is due to be made available on the UK market, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great…

As a science site, one thing we understand is physics and how it can be exculpatory - no snowflake in an avalance ever has to take the blame. The American Beverage Association(ABA) knows this too.…

Michael Shermer (the well known author and publisher of Skeptic magazine) and I usually see eye to eye on all things skeptical. On matters of economics, however, we seem to depart…

Genetically modified foods are the enemy, say some activists, but organic foods have caused all the salmonella say others. The food safety message is a mess and Americans lack confidence in the…

A story in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune caught my attention today, not only because it was an interesting article but because it may indicate a shift in our country’s approach to health care. As we…

Critics may say the US is losing its competitive edge but nonetheless she remains dominant in science and technology worldwide by a large margin, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.…