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Pesticides

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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

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

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

Politics

The Top 5 Lies About Biotech Crops

Don't believe the anti-biotech hype.

Ronald Bailey | 2.22.2013 4:30 PM

Biotechnology

Ronald Bailey: The Top 5 Lies About Biotech Crops

Reason Staff | 2.22.2013 4:30 PM

Policy

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring at 50 Years

Joshua Swain | 9.27.2012 3:30 PM

Endangered species

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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