A new law in Montana, dubbed Medical Conscience Objection Laws, will provide sweeping protections for medical professionals who do not want to participate in or provide some types of medical care due to conscience.
Author: Devon Herrick
Should You Own Your Cells if They’re Valuable?
Imagine you own a plot of land under which oil is found. Whether or not you have a right to a share of the wealth is determined by whether you own the mineral rights. Suppose you own a field and one day you discover a previous owner buried their life savings on the property 160 years ago. This year the owner of a cornfield in Kentucky found more than 700 gold coins dated between 1840 and 1863 buried on his land. Does he own those coins? Generally, unless there was some compelling evidence that the original owner was the government or it was used in a crime.
How about if your doctor was treating you for cancer and discovered an interesting phenomenon in your cancer cells?
Are Asylums the Answer for Mentally Ill Homeless?
The homeless population is reaching epic proportions in high-cost cities and is glowing in places where homelessness was never as prevalent. Although the reasons are many, the homeless are poor, often have uncontrolled substance abuse disorders or suffer from mental illness. Often the homeless have all the above. High rents exacerbate the above problems.
On an average night, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, close to 600,000 people in the country will be homeless—a figure seen by many as an undercount. More than 40% will be “unsheltered,” or “living in places not suitable for human habitation,” and about 20% will be dealing with severe mental illness.
New York Times: Fake Science Used to Promote Many Heath Products
Whether you’re in the grocery store aisle, drugstore aisle, flipping through the pages of a lifestyle magazine or perusing Amazon, health products are everywhere. Too many of their claims are based on bogus science, pseudoscience, psychobabble or good old-fashioned snake oil. Often the names and claims sound scientific but too often are not. A new term to describe fake scientific claims is “scienceploitation”.