Category Archives: Regulation

Public Health and American Exceptionalism: Part II Raw Milk

…A more relaxed approach to raw, unpasteurized, milk is another topic that has provoked a great deal of noise from critics of the current DHHS regime. To read some of them, it would seem that any easing of the requirements for the pasteurization of milk entering the US food system would lead to mass infection… Read More »

Ethics regulation and sociology in France

Co-authored with Carine Vassy (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (Paris 13) and Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire Sur Les Enjeux Sociaux (IRIS), France) The French research ecosystem long resisted extending the ethics regulation processes established for biomedical science into the social sciences. This is now changing. This history of resistance is examined, together with the alternatives proposed.… Read More »

How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence?

Today’s moral panic is about AI and machine learning. Governments around the world are hastening to adopt positions and regulate what they are told is a potentially existential threat to humanity – and certainly to a lot of middle class voters in service occupations. However, it is notable that most of the hype is coming… Read More »

Understanding “corruption” in regulatory agencies

Now Published – Understanding “corruption” in regulatory agencies: The case of food inspection in Saudi Arabia Saad Al-Mutairi Public Department of Environmental Health, Municipality of Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Ian Connerton Food Microbiology and Safety Section, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Loughborough, UK Robert Dingwall Dingwall Enterprises Ltd/Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK Corruption is… Read More »