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Michael Schulson

Family with dogs (Getty Images/boytsov)

The fuzzy science on whether Fido is actually good for you

Michael Schulson
Tap water in a clear glass drinking glass. (Getty Images)

In millions of homes, high fluoride in tap water may be a concern

Michael Schulson
Prison cells (Getty Images/Hitoshi Nishimura)

Criminologists, looking to biology for insight, stir a racist past

Michael Schulson
A biohazard symbol on the entrance door of the microbiology laboratory (Getty Images/zmeel)

Amid the turmoil of COVID, biosafety legislation gets political

Michael Schulson
At the University of Minnesota's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, the door to the lab where the first step is taken in the testing of samples for the monkeypox virus has a warning sign to let others know not to enter. (JUDY GRIESEDIECK/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

The challenges of calculating a lab leak risk

Michael Schulson
A biohazard symbol on the entrance door of the microbiology laboratory (Getty Images/zmeel)

The worrying murkiness of institutional biosafety committees

Michael Schulson
Harvard University Professor E.O. Wilson in his office at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. USA. Professor Wilson is a biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. He is considered to be the world's leading authority on the study of ants. (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)

New evidence revives old questions about E.O. Wilson and race

Michael Schulson
Rat poison trap box (Getty Images/richard johnson)

In a world that still traps animals, can science ever limit suffering?

Michael Schulson
Stock Market Arrow Graph Going Down (Getty Images)

Among social scientists, a vigorous debate over loss aversion

Michael Schulson
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Dispensing doctors: Should physicians sell drugs to patients?

Michael Schulson
The Cleveland Clinic: Cole Eye Institute (Photo courtesy of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation)

A curious union: Clorox, Cleveland Clinic, and the CDC Foundation

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In the debate over “SIDS monitors,” evidence is thin all around

Michael Schulson
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

A year into COVID, states debate public health shutdown powers

Michael Schulson
A man waves a QAnon conspiracy flag at a protest of coronavirus skeptics, right-wing extremists and others angry over coronavirus-related restrictions and government policy on August 29, 2020 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Can cult studies offer help with QAnon? The science is thin

Michael Schulson
A researcher works on a vaccine against the new coronavirus COVID-19 at the Copenhagen's University research lab in Copenhagen, Denmark, on March 23, 2020. (THIBAULT SAVARY/AFP via Getty Images)

With mass vaccination, medical volunteers face a new test

Michael Schulson
Posters seeking missing young woman (Getty Images)

An uncertain future for a key missing persons program

Michael Schulson
Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the NYT poll dials (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NYT)

In fallout over polls, “margin of error” gets new scrutiny

Michael Schulson
Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the NYT poll dials (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NYT)

Another election, another round of poll bashing. Is that fair?

Michael Schulson
Patients and staff test positive for coronavirus at nursing homes (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Amid deadly virus, a push for nursing home alternatives

Michael Schulson

Preparedness spending exploded after 9/11. So why isn’t that helping now?

Michael Schulson
(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

The peril of state power amid COVID-19 pandemic

Michael Schulson
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Psychology still skews western and affluent. Can it be fixed?

Michael Schulson
(goop.com)

In outrage over its bunk science, Goop finds fuel for growth

Michael Schulson
(George Frey/Getty Images)

Federal Toxmap shutters, raising the ire of pollution researchers

Michael Schulson
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