It’s pretty important to have strong ethics even when pursuing scientific knowledge. We, in what I think most would agree is a positive move, have drawn a line at which information comes at too high a ...

The specter of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study inevitably looms over talk of human subjects in medical research. The well-known case involved the U.S. Public Health Service, which, from 1932 to 1972, ...

From Ardor Scribendi, publisher of mainly medical books on dermatology but also on matters that transcend it, comes this massive and thorough review of a horrible subject: the systematic use and abuse ...

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As part of a challenge study conducted during the pandemic, 34 healthy volunteers were deliberately infected with SARS-CoV-2 to assess the potential cognitive impacts of COVID-19. Everything about the ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...