RFK Jr. Shifts $500 Million From mRNA Research to 'Safer' Vaccines. Does the Data Back That Up?
The Health and Human Services secretary once again stands athwart biomedical progress yelling, "Stop!"
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.
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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.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' vote ratifies unscientific claims linking a vaccine preservative to autism.
The infection killed millions of people throughout history. Today it's considered a mild illness.
First-place finishes include a piece on the Dutch "dropping" rite of passage, a documentary exploring citizen journalism and free speech, and a long-form interview with exoneree Amanda Knox.
Unfortunately, the director of Health and Human Services leads a movement prone to untrue beliefs on medical matters from cell phones to vaccines, pesticides, and genetically modified crops.
Medical school is so expensive in the first place because of a policy that gives medical students unlimited access to loans.
Strict abortion bans do not seem to be seriously stopping abortions.
Offended Freedom categorizes perfectly understandable anger at government overreach as inherently "authoritarian."
In Greed to Do Good, a former CDC physician calls the agency's war on opioids a disaster.
With the culture war blazing, not even the Supreme Court could agree on the medical facts of the case.
A new book looks at addiction through the lens of choice and responsibility.
Does RFK Jr.'s MAHA movement want to loosen the government's grasp on food and medicine—or use government power to impose blueberries on everyone else?
The Health and Human Services secretary appointed several anti-vaxxer-adjacent members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
A genomics PhD and conservative bioethicist debate the ethics of in vitro fertilization and discuss recent scientific advancements in reproductive medicine.
Ailing Americans are winning expanded freedom to try experimental medicine.
"The income gap really was the main driver that showed up over and over again," said one researcher.
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By almost every measure, America during the pandemic was a more dangerous, deadly, and dysfunctional place.
Trump's trade war has created a carve-out bonanza for industries with political connections and big lobbying budgets.
Drugs like Ozempic might not only address obesity but also alcoholism, smoking, and drug addiction.
A strange sort of policy logic powers the new Disney remake.
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