In the Media

In medical science, fact checkers cannot reliably determine what is or isn’t “true” because clinical medicine rarely produces unassailable “facts”.

In this Op-Ed, CERC’s Robert Kaplan says California’s new law permitting legal action against physicians spreading COVID misinformation could set a dangerous precedent.

In this New York Times feature article, CERC’s Kevin Schulman notes that with the pace Covid vaccination slowing, creative marketing campaigns could help generate demand.

In the article, titled "The Rise and Potential of Physician Unions," Daniel Bowling III, Barak Richman, PhD, and Kevin Schulman, MD, examine the rise and potential of physician unions, while providing their perspective on the issue of physician unions.

This Viewpoint discusses the potential increase in physician unions as a way to deal with conflicts between large hospital systems and physicians, as well as how such unions may be able to provide individual employment benefits but have limited impact on higher governance concerns.

CERC’s Robert Kaplan reviews Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla’s new book, “Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible” and concludes that one pharmaceutical company can’t take credit for an ongoing and heterogeneous scientific process.