Policy & Ethics

Abstract

"The health care costs attributable to vaping are already substantial and likely to increase." So concluded the authors of a study just published in the journal Tobacco Control.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social inequities that rival biological inequities in disease exposure and severity.” [1]

Cis and Trans are words I first learned in chemistry. They describe different isomers -- compounds with the same chemical formula but different structural arrangements.  Sometimes the differences are significant, sometimes not so.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, many commentators have identified the elderly as the group most vulnerable to COVID-19.

Join our directors of chemistry and bio-sciences, Dr. Josh Bloom and Cameron English, as they break down these stories:

My esteemed colleague Cameron English has gotten into it (again) with the esteemed journalist BS artist Carey Gillam, who sees herself as the investigative savior of a poisoned world.

"Censorship of science is deeply troubling on many levels," the ACLU argued in 2007. "At the most basic, it affronts the fundamental premises of the scientific method ... For science to advance, knowledge must be shared.

Some quick background

So What’s Wrong with Whole Genome Sequencing?