Election Science Stakes: Environment
Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti talks about how this election will affect environmental science and policy. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Election Science Stakes: Medicine and Public Health
Scientific American's senior medicine editor, Josh Fischman, talks about issues in medicine and public health that will be affected by this election. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Election Science Stakes: Medicine and Public Health
Scientific American's senior medicine editor, Josh Fischman, talks about issues in medicine and public health that will be affected by this election. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling Could Jeopardize Health Insurance for People with COVID
In a case on the Affordable Care Act next month, a conservative court could take away protections for preexisting conditions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Teaching Anti-Racism to the Next Generation of Doctors
Challenging racism’s deleterious effects requires first identifying its many forms -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Physician-Politicians Tout Medical Credentials in Key U.S. Congressional Races
Amid the pandemic, candidates in tight contests in Arizona and Kansas contrast their understanding of science with opponents’ disregard -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
COVID Misinformation Is Killing People
This “infodemic” has to stop -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Nobelist Talks CRISPR Uses
New chemistry Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna talks about various applications of the gene editing tool CRISPR. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Trump’s Illness and the Need for a Reset on U.S. Coronavirus Policy
Promoting the use of masks, contact tracing and social distancing could still save 100,000 lives -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How to Distribute a COVID Vaccine Ethically
The unequal wealth of nations should not determine allocation -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
When Politics Distorts Science
Shocking levels of interference at the CDC and HHS threaten public faith in our most reliable public health institutions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
We Can’t Allow the CDC to Be Tainted by Politics
If science doesn’t drive the agency’s crucial weekly reports about disease prevalence and mortality, we’ll lose a key tool for fighting this pandemic -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
COVID-19’s Disparate Impacts Are Not a Story about Race
They’re a story about racism -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Stop Stealing Doctors from Developing Countries
The U.S. is luring physicians from places where they’re already in short supply -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How Those Bogus Reports on ‘Ineffective’ Neck Gaiters Got Started
The study they were based on was misrepresented by the press—but the scientists were partly at fault as well -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Do-it-Yourself Vaccines for COVID-19
Some scientists are self-administering an untested product. Is that legal? Is it ethical? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com