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A More Political Science

What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?

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Essay | Winter 2025

Winter 2025

  • Garth Brown

Can You Solve a Lifestyle Epidemic Without Lifestyle Gurus?

When you’ve got a “diseases of civilization” crisis, you’re gonna get some weirdos.

Garth Brown

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Sara Hendren

Homes where old people and disabled people can help each other out

From: What We Should Build

Sara Hendren

Essay | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Charlotte Collingwood

Laboring in the Dark

IVF might sound like an act of taking control, but it felt like an act of surrender.

Charlotte Collingwood

Online Exclusive | March 25, 2021

March 25, 2021

  • Arturo Casadevall
  • Michael J. Joyner
  • Nigel Paneth

A Victory for Scientific Pragmatism

In an emergency, the “gold” standard of evidence may not be the wise one.

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Arturo Casadevall, Michael J. Joyner, Nigel Paneth

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Joseph E. Davis
  • Paul Scherz

Recovering Old Age

Covid has laid bare our warehousing attitude toward the elderly. Have we forgotten what aging is for?

Joseph E. Davis and Paul Scherz

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Aaron Rothstein

Little Data, Big Headlines

On overinterpreting Covid studies for clicks

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Aaron Rothstein

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Devorah Goldman

Disarming Frontline Doctors

In its quest to meet the “gold standard,” academic medicine has put Covid patients at risk.

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Devorah Goldman

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Essay | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Aaron Kheriaty

First, Take No Stand

On assisted suicide, the medical profession ducks behind “neutrality.”

Aaron Kheriaty

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Essay | Summer/Fall 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

  • Algis Valiunas

Jonas Salk, the People’s Scientist

How the man who vanquished polio won the public’s love but never the respect of his peers

Algis Valiunas

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Review | Spring 2017

Spring 2017

  • Aaron Rothstein

Toward a More Human Medicine

Aaron Rothstein

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