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Pesticides

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San Francisco

With Proposed Glue Trap Ban, San Francisco Sides With the Pests

Glue traps are a cheap and effective pest control tool. Naturally, San Francisco is considering banning them.

Christian Britschgi | 4.24.2025 3:50 PM

John Stossel stands in front of a swarm of bees | Stossel TV

Energy & Environment

How the Media Manufactured Panic Over Bees

About 20 years ago, many American bees did die. Then that steadily diminished—but hysteria in the press continued.

John Stossel | 5.22.2024 10:30 AM

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Nanny State

Ted Lieu Wants To Criminalize Glue Traps

The congressman's "Glue Trap Prohibition Act" would make it illegal to sell glue traps or even use them in the home.

Christian Britschgi | 1.19.2024 3:25 PM

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Unintended Consequences

Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Dollar Coins, Fertilizer Ban, and the Hawaiian Mongoose (Vol. 14)

Good intentions, bad results.

Meredith Bragg, Austin Bragg, and John Carter | 1.19.2024 10:25 AM

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Glyphosate

Bayer Surrenders to Trial-Lawyer Extortion Over Bogus Glyphosate Weedkiller Cancer Claims

The chemical company has agreed to create a $10 billion settlement fund

Ronald Bailey | 6.24.2020 4:20 PM

Capitalism is sweet | Victor Fischer/Dreamstime

Bees

No 'Bee-Apocalypse,' Thanks to Free Markets

A new study finds no dramatic and widespread economic effects from colony collapse disorder.

Ronald Bailey | 7.15.2019 4:35 PM

Activists cannot be appeased | Oliver Berg/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom

Environmentalism

Bayer to Waste $5.6 Billion Trying to Appease Anti-Pesticide Activists

This will fail and more pressing problems will be neglected

Ronald Bailey | 6.14.2019 6:30 PM

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GMO Food

New York Organic Farmers Oppose Release of Genetically Modified Moths

On the other hand, Google's Verily is debugging Fresno.

Ronald Bailey | 7.19.2017 12:30 PM

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Bees

Capitalism Averts Alleged Beepocalypse

Activists recycle specious apiary catastrophism.

Ronald Bailey | 7.7.2017 1:35 PM

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Environmentalism

Glyphosate Found in Some Cereals: Alarmists Generate Useless Panic

Another bogus scaremongering study by anti-technology activists

Ronald Bailey | 4.19.2016 6:03 PM

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The End of Doom

Slate Says "Upwing" With The End of Doom by Ronald Bailey

Forget Right and Left: Are You an Upwinger or a Downwinger?

Ronald Bailey | 12.15.2015 10:11 AM

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Pesticides

Glyphosate Herbicide Not Carcinogenic Rules European Food Safety Authority

Activists decry failure to adhere to technology-killing precautionary principle

Ronald Bailey | 11.20.2015 3:46 PM

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Junk science

Does Popular Herbicide Glyphosate Cause Cancer? Probably Not

Anti-GMO types are ecstatic over regulatory ruling that the herbicide is a probable human carcinogen.

Ronald Bailey | 3.25.2015 10:34 AM

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GMO Food

Hooray for FrankenMosquitoes in the Florida Keys!

Genetically modified mosquitoes combat disease

Ronald Bailey | 2.20.2015 12:47 PM

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Science

Really Depressing Survey of What Scientists and the Public Think About Science and Society

Disinformation specialists are everywhere

Ronald Bailey | 1.30.2015 4:32 PM

Pesticides

Bee Apocalypse Science Scandal Update and An Apparent Threat of Legal Action

Ronald Bailey | 12.4.2014 3:41 PM

Pesticides

Bee Apocalypse Science Scandal? Did Scientists "Fix Evidence" To Ban Neonic Pesticides?

Ronald Bailey | 12.4.2014 1:03 PM

GMO Food

Biotech Crops Use Less Pesticide: Study Rebuts Perennial Anti-GMO Activist Lie

Ronald Bailey | 11.6.2014 3:13 PM

Policy

'Editing' Life With Gene Drives is a Great Way to Play God

Researchers develop a powerful new tool to manage wild ecosystems.

Ronald Bailey | 7.25.2014 1:30 PM

World

Police Arrest School Headmistress in Deadly Indian Food-Poisoning Case

23 children died

Reason Staff | 7.24.2013 4:40 PM

World

Pesticide Confirmed in Deadly Indian School Lunches

23 children died

Reason Staff | 7.18.2013 3:40 PM

Pesticides

Pesticide Workers Have Less Cancer Says New Study

Ronald Bailey | 6.24.2013 11:35 AM

Science & Technology

Europe Struggles with Bee Population Decline

Two-year ban on pesticides considered

Reason Staff | 4.29.2013 5:30 PM

Policy

Suit Accuses EPA of Ignoring Harms of Pesticides

Judge will consider dismissal of demands for significant changes

Reason Staff | 3.15.2013 5:40 PM

Biotechnology

Ronald Bailey: The Top 5 Lies About Biotech Crops

Reason Staff | 2.22.2013 4:30 PM

Politics

The Top 5 Lies About Biotech Crops

Don't believe the anti-biotech hype.

Ronald Bailey | 2.22.2013 4:30 PM

Policy

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring at 50 Years

Joshua Swain | 9.27.2012 3:30 PM

Politics

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring at 50 Years

Joshua Swain | 9.27.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

When it Comes to Human Flourishing, Forget Rachel Carson & Remember Bruce Ames

Nick Gillespie | 9.27.2012 9:43 AM

Politics

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.

Ronald Bailey | 9.26.2012 10:30 AM

Rachel Carson

Ronald Bailey on the 50th Anniversary of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

Reason Staff | 9.26.2012 10:30 AM

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