Regulating Scientific Research: A Constitutional Moment?

Constitutional Restraints on the Regulations of Scientific Speech and Scientific Research

The question of what constitutional constraints should apply to government efforts to regulate scientific speech is frequently contrasted to the question of what constitutional constraints should apply to government efforts to regulate scientific research. This comment argues that neither question is well formulated for constitutional analysis, which should instead turn on the relationship to c...

Regulating research, regulating professionals.

This issue sees the publication of the first in a series of six articles about alleged research misconduct. Rarely does one feel so moved and disturbed by a collection of articles in an academic journal. All take as their focus the trial of continuous negative extrathoracic pressure (CNEP) for treatment of preterm infants with respiratory failure at North Staffordshire hospital in the UK, which...

Regulating choice: a constitutional law response to Professor John A. Robertson's Children of Choice.

A Scientific Basis for Regulating Deep-Sea Fishing by Depth

The deep sea is the world's largest ecosystem, with high levels of biodiversity and many species that exhibit life-history characteristics that make them vulnerable to high levels of exploitation. Many fisheries in the deep sea have a track record of being unsustainable. In the northeast Atlantic, there has been a decline in the abundance of commercial fish species since deep-sea fishing commen...

A CASE REPORT OF HUMAN DISTEMPER VIRUS AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH STUDY ABOUT IT

Distemper virus is a Morbillivirus (in the family Paramyxoviridae) that can cause contagious disease in dogs. The virus affects the respiratory, digestive, and nervous systems after transmission. In this study, we reported a case of human infection and involvement with the Distemper virus. A 31-year-old man was diagnosed with clinical signs of Distemper in dogs. After serologic tests on saliva...