Biosafety advocates worry the administration is backtracking on its promise to implement meaningful restrictions on the type of research that likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Author Joe Dolce explains how psychedelics are moving from counterculture to mainstream, with new science, shifting laws, and surprising therapies that promise to change how we treat addiction, anxiety, and self-discovery.
The posts were "downplaying the severity of the COVID pandemic, promoting the use of ivermectin over a vaccine, and criticizing the government's response to the pandemic."
No. Federal dietary guidelines have made that connection since the 1980s, but some anti-alcohol activists are mad they didn't get to rewrite the rules this year.
Department of Veterans Affairs
What began as a simple hospital project has become yet another example of bureaucratic failure at the Department of Veterans Affairs
The expenditures are often costly privileges for special interests that mask the true size of government and fail to deliver the promised bang for the buck.
The agency's puzzling concerns about the Lykos Therapeutics drug application
Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo proposed ending the requirement that public school children be vaccinated, calling the mandate "slavery."
Not long ago, conservatives were rightly concerned about jawboning. Now they're apparently happy to take part in it themselves.
Plus: The National Guard standoff in Chicago, navigating debates when you’re outnumbered, and a court ruling that could upend Trump’s tariff agenda.
Many people prefer naturally produced over man-made. But isn't there something just as compelling about the stuff that thousands of people collaborated to make?
Florida officials can’t agree on whether unpasteurized milk is a health threat or benefit, leaving consumers more confused than if they were left to decide for themselves.
RFK Jr. has had a crazy week. It will not be his last, alas.
The appeals court rejected most of the arguments in favor of that policy, saying "the government must show non-intoxicated marijuana users pose a risk of future danger."
The CDC needs drastic reform, but RFK Jr.'s firing of agency head Susan Monarez does not achieve that.
The appeals court concluded that the government had failed to show that policy is consistent with "this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation."
"I needed some extensive and expensive dental work, and so I crossed borders."
Texas Rep. Chip Roy joins Nick Gillespie to talk about runaway spending, the uphill battle for health care reform, and where immigration fits into the liberty vs. sovereignty debate.
"If your kids went through puberty on a smartphone with social media, they came out different than human beings before that," argues psychologist Jonathan Haidt.
An easy way to avoid the merits in the latest high-stake health care litigation.
The Health and Human Services secretary once again stands athwart biomedical progress yelling, "Stop!"
Illinois wants to give mental health screenings to elementary schoolers. Will that actually help struggling kids?
The appeals court held that the government may require COVID-19 shots based purely on the benefits to recipients.
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya defends open disagreement, criticizes groupthink, and argues that democracy depends on our ability to speak and listen across political and scientific divides.
It's time to ask what level of spending Americans truly want with the money we actually have.
Plus: regulating college sports, forgiving baseball’s legends, and Happy Gilmore 2
This “public health” position has long been a sinecure for professional activists.
Science journalist Gary Taubes discusses the MAHA Report, new dietary guidelines, and bad nutrition science on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
Federal liability protections currently prevent people suing COVID-19 vaccine makers, and instead require them to request compensation from a program that's covered only 39 COVID vaccine injury claims.
Yale’s Jacob Hacker and Sesame’s David Goldhill debate a government-run health insurance plan.
The success of "contingency management" belies the notion that addiction is an uncontrollable disease caused by a drug's impact on dopamine levels.
The FDA blocked a similar successful treatment for mitochondrial disease a quarter of century ago.
Partisan pundits are misreading statistical estimates and misrepresenting the science to suggest that Trump's Medicaid cuts will kill 100,000 people. That claim doesn’t survive scrutiny.
Criminal justice reform advocates are still hopeful the office can secure outside funding and bring much-needed transparency to Arizona's prisons.
But Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a strong dissent to denial of certiorari.
In a bill packed with spending, one provision offers real gains for health care choice and savings.
The immigration agency has reportedly gained access to a private database designed to fight insurance fraud.
Sophia Rosenfeld joins Nick Gillespie to discuss how personal choice became central to modern ideas of freedom and why that shift carries political, cultural, and psychological consequences.
What if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs?
Plus: Trump's E.U. trade deadline, masked ICE agents, and Elon Musk's third party
In this painfully mediocre Jurassic Park franchise placeholder, even the hypocrisy is nostalgic.
Plus: Zohran Mamdani doesn't understand what New York's families need, Lia Thomas titles revoked, and more...
A more effective reform is to let the market curb waste and reward innovation.
West Virginia's overdose data prove it: Officials misunderstood the problem, and patients paid the price.
While a viral post called the results “shocking,” the study itself found little evidence that social media use harms mental health.
Other countries have taken meaningful steps to address similar challenges. The U.S. has done nothing.
