The Alternative Medicine Racket: How the Feds Fund Quacks
The NIH has spent $5.5 billion on bringing quackery-from faith healing to homeopathy-right into the heart of the American medical establishment.
The NIH has spent $5.5 billion on bringing quackery-from faith healing to homeopathy-right into the heart of the American medical establishment.
Modafinil is "one of the most promising neuroenhancers to date"-and still a controlled substance in the U.S.
Art was the first neurotechnology: A feel-good video to start your weekend
Drug advances can stop the spread of the virus, if we can get them into the right people's hands.
"Schedule II is absolutely easier to research," says Kevin Sabet.
Obstacles to research are crumbling, with support from drug warriors.
Even prohibitionists agree that the process for approving studies should be streamlined.
The authors say the evidence supporting most other applications is weak.
Efforts to remove the 'profit motive' from medicine is a self-interested move by professional meddlers.
How technology is freeing both patients and physicians from the medical industrial complex
Proposal would let patients pick up birth control pills at the pharmacy counter.
How technology is freeing both patients and physicians from the medical industrial complex
Drug addiction is not caused by the effects of drugs alone.
Gary Greenberg argues just throwing out Freud doesn't cure psychiatry of its ills.
Better to be the donor than the recipient in this case
The curiously circumscribed nature of the suicide right recognized by Canada's Supreme Court
The promise of technical end-runs around government ineptitude
The next big political fix for our ailing health care system should be to get out of Silicon Valley's way.
Rapid biomedical progress will soon make epidemics ancient history
As hospitals and courts collude, pregnant women are being excluded from fundamental decisions about how they give birth.
Activists obsessed with "conflict of interest" in science make life more difficult for doctors, and for patients who want cures.
It's the most significant chemical substance our species has ever encountered.
A new method of HIV prevention leads to old-school sex-shaming
Those with standing to challenge the pill's prescription status also gain from keeping it that way.
The Florida Supreme Court draws new attention to a systemic problem.
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