Category: Volume 72, Issue 3

[et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.8.2″] Robert C. Bird Volume 72, Issue 3, 719-772 Science skepticism is on the rise worldwide, and it has a pernicious influence on science and science-based public policy. This Article explores two of the most controversial science-based public policy issues: whether genetically modified foods are inherently unsafe and…

[et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.8.2″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Valarie K. Blake Volume 72, Issue 3, 773-826 The passage of Medicare for All would go a long way toward curing the inequality that plagues our health care system along racial, sex, age, health status, disability, and socioeconomic lines. Yet, while laudably creating a universal…

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[et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.8.2″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Adam M. Gershowitz Volume 72, Issue 3, 871-918 Imagine that a medical board revokes a doctor’s license both because he has been peddling thousands of pills of opioids and also because he was caught with a few grams of cocaine. The doctor is a family…

[et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.8.2″ hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Lauren Trambley Volume 72, Issue 3, 919-958 Although California was by no means an affordable state to reside in prior to 2008, Californians are still experiencing the reverberating effects of the collapse of the housing market in its present affordable housing crisis. As a result…

[et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”2px|0px|27px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.8.2″] Robert Wu Volume 72, Issue 3, 959-998 In the first three years of Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), over 227,000 borrowers applied for relief. The U.S. Department of Education granted relief to less than 3800 borrowers, denying forgiveness to roughly 98% of the program’s applicants. This astronomically…