SCIENCE AND IDEOLOGY

Written by Dr. Stephen Hwang, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto --Science and Ideology -- has been published in the peer-reviewed, independent, open-access scientific journal Open Medicine. More than 130 prominent Canadian physicians, scientists, and public health professionals have endorsed Dr. Hwang’s commentary.

“The fact that a highly promising intervention for the management of substance abuse appears to have been judged by an entirely different standard than interventions for other common chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, suggests that scientific evidence is about to be trumped by ideology.”

The entire commentary can be accessed by clicking here.