Medical students make a variety of promises at graduation and white coat ceremonies — and even write their own oaths. What they include, from social activism to self-care, would surprise Hippocrates. The Yale School of Medicine class of 2018 recites a physician’s oath that combines traditional declarations with students’ own …

Meta is trying hard to saturate the VR headset market with their sell-at-cost Quest lineup. In doing so, they are positioning themselves as the gatekeepers of the metaverse, a virtual space that’s evolving from and with the internet. Meta doesn’t own the metaverse. Said more clearly, Facebook doesn’t own the metaverse. …

Without a completed safety study or expert committee review, the FDA issued a supplemental Biologics License Application (“sBLA”) approval letter granting full FDA approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COMIRNATY® COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for use in children ages 12-15. This was done even though safety study completion, on which approval should be based, …

I. I graduated from Stanford on Sunday, but it almost didn’t happen. In fact, I was almost denied my BS degree — what the BS stands for is up to your interpretation — because I am “unboosted.” I am engaged in “vaccine noncompliance,” at least on one of the three …

For better or worse, my brain is wired to doubt. Even when I’m feeling all gooey and spiritual and thinking that maybe there’s a prime mover in charge of things, my skeptical synapses swoop in and spoil the fun, insisting my thoughts are just a trick of human biology. But the pandemic—or …