Tags: Science Policy
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Who's Afraid of Your Genome?
Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey files his second dispatch from the Consumer Genetics Conference.
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Virtual Children, Genome Sequencing for Everyone, and Forget Genetic Privacy
Ronald Bailey sends his first dispatch from the Fourth Annual Consumer Genetics Conference
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Reason Writers Around Town: The Yale Forum on Climate Change Interviews Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey
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Half of the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
A review of The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman.
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End Energy Socialism: Wind Edition
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Property Rights Are the Way to Save the World's Depleting Fisheries, Reports Science
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Silent Spring's 50-Year History of Selective Data
Rachel Carson, more than any other person, created the politicized science that afflicts today's public policy debates.
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Ronald Bailey on the 50th Anniversary of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
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Mars Mission Jeopardized By Germ Paranoia
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The Democratic Party's Science and Technology Policy Platform
What the Dems think about sex education, fracking, climate change, drilling, renewables, R&D 'investments,' and much more.
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The Republican Party's Science and Technology Policy Platform
What the GOP thinks about sex ed, fracking, abortion, stem cells, nuclear power, climate change and more.
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Ronald Bailey Parses the GOP Platform's Sci-Tech Policy Planks
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The 5 Dumbest Drug Laws in America
From banning the sale of magazines to regulating chemistry equipment, local and state drug warriors mainline stupidity.
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The End of the World Is Still Not Nigh Says "Rational Optimist" Matt Ridley
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California Initiative Puts Profit Ahead of Science
Proposition 37 props up profits for organic growers and denies the scientific consensus in favor of biotech crops.
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Roundup of Republican Veep Candidate Paul Ryan on SciTech and Energy Policy
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Mayor Bloomberg: Breastfeed or Else
Bloomberg enthusiastically favors breastfeeding infants. But he is not content to simply express his view for your consideration.
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Everyone Freaks Out About Two New Climate Change Studies
New reports on global temperature trends cause a predictable media uproar
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Neil Armstrong Clarification: First Moonwalker Wants to "Encourage Newcomers."
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HIV Revisionism in Fort Bragg Acquittal