The Toxicology Report on 2 Dead Students Isn't Back. But the Kratom Panic Is Already Here.
Before the science is in, the panic is already writing policy.
Health
Failures of Canada's Single-Payer Health Care Highlight the Flaws of 'Medicare for All'
Under single-payer, patients’ needs take a backseat to government bureaucrats’ priorities.
Feeding Chameleons, Lesbian Bars, and Fight Club
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi tackle political scandals, culture war flashpoints, school choice, cult classics, and the history of America’s prison system.
Federal Health Care Subsidies Are Devouring the Budget and Killing Patient Satisfaction
A plague of federal rules and spending is bad medicine.
How Will History Remember Anthony Fauci?
Fauci's diary reveals a self-obsessed career bureaucrat who refused to consider the possibility that his research contributed to origin of COVID-19.
People Get Paid for Blood, Plasma, and Drug Trials—Why Not Kidneys Too?
Instead of kidney waitlists that kill thousands of people a year, let people get paid for kidney transplants.
Cancer Vaccines, Anti-Aging Treatments, and 5 Other Exciting Biomedical Advances
Getting older makes you more prone to all kinds of maladies. So why not become younger?
Montana Is Trying To Break the FDA's Monopoly on Experimental Treatments
Montana’s expanded right-to-try program has cleared its first therapy: a sound-and-antihistamine regimen to reverse hearing loss.
SCOTUS May Soon Determine If California Can Force Doctors To Learn About 'Implicit Bias'
A Supreme Court petition challenges California’s attempt to force private medical instructors to teach “implicit bias.”
ICE's Missing Miscarriage Data Leave Questions About Pregnancy Care in Detention
The Trump administration has reached record-breaking levels of immigration arrests amid accusations of medical neglect, including among pregnant women.
Can a New Weight Loss Treatment Escape the Legal and Regulatory Thicket?
It’s Eli Lilly vs. RFK Jr. in a battle over the rules around retatrutide.
RFK Jr.'s MAHA Cooking Show Is Government Propaganda. I Kind of Love It?
I think it's cool that conservatives are trying to make it cool to care about nutrition. But this isn't the government's place.
The Lindsay Clancy Jury Was Tasked With an Impossible Question
In the court of public opinion, there is little room for ambiguity here. But those who watched the trial know that reality is far less satisfying.
COVID-19 Origins: Lab Leak or Natural Spillover?
Watch Reason's Robby Soave and YouTube commentator Destiny debate the origins of COVID-19 live on September 9 at 2 p.m. Eastern time.
Traditional Medical Licensing Requirements Don't Generally Violate First Amendment Rights of Doctors Providing Advice
So the Third Circuit held yesterday, though it left room for challenges to laws that make it too hard to get cross-licensed from one state to another.
Haidt's Moment
Plus: The scourge of scromiting, blaming air traffic control, and more...
The National Debt Has Crossed $40 Trillion. Both Parties Are Responsible.
And both are hiding behind a lie of omission.
Strong Weed Is No Reason for Prohibition
New research on cannabis use could reshape the debate around marijuana legalization and revive old arguments for restricting legal markets.
Vinay Prasad: Public Health in This Country Is So Broken
Vinay Prasad discusses his departure from the FDA, Fauci's diaries, and how working for the government made him more libertarian.
Forget the Population Bomb. The New Fear Is a Population Implosion.
Overpopulation panic is sooooo 20th Century! Welcome to the era of depopulation dread.
Breakthrough Personalized mRNA Vaccines Are Highly Effective Against Melanoma Skin Cancers
The vaccine could be available as soon as 2027.
Universal Healthcare Sounds Great. Here's What's Happening in Countries That Have It.
With calls for “free healthcare” growing louder in America, countries with universal systems offer a warning: long waits, rationed care, and unmet medical needs.
Who Pays for Medicare for All?
Plus: Democrats reckon with the rise of the DSA, Trump scales back America's military presence abroad, and the case for letting kids play outside
Can Ozempic Solve the Sex Recession and Raise Marriage Rates?
Maybe “solve” is overstating it. But a recent study linked GLP-1 medications to a greater likelihood of marriage or cohabitation.
Socialists Claim Public Libraries Are Examples of Their Policies. Don't Believe Them.
Libraries aren’t all that socialist, and they’re far from the total state the radicals really want.
Another Social Media 'Addiction' Trial Starts Today. Its Claims Are Weak—but Dangerous.
Meta is on trial for fomenting "FOMO," among other things. It sounds silly, but the playbook used here could work against religious groups, fast food, and much more.
The War on Drugs Has Come to the Maternity Ward
Doctors are drug testing pregnant women without their consent, then handing their results over to the state.
RFK Jr. Wants More FDA Oversight of Food Ingredients. It Could End Up Costing $210 Million.
A proposed FDA rule would require food manufacturers to disclose ingredients they deem safe, which the agency admits would have a “significant economic impact” on small businesses.
AI Is Already Beating Human Doctors in Medical Tests
Robo-docs are not likely to take over healthcare anytime soon, but they could do more to assist human doctors—if we let them.
After 2 Decades of Raids and Prison Stints, Liverpool's 'Cannabis Martyr' Is Still 'Fighting for Freedom'
Gary Youds says his cannabis café is “what the future looks like the day after the drug war.”
One Night Only Is a Rare Rom-Com About Regulation
In The Purge: but for Sex, everyone takes a crackdown on sexual freedom for granted.
Abdul El-Sayed Says He's Not a Socialist. His Policy Agenda Says Otherwise.
El-Sayed is pushing a mendacious claim: that people would be wealthier if they endured yet another massive transfer of money and power to a vast federal health bureaucracy.
Abdul El-Sayed's COVID Radicalism Is a Callback to a More United Party
The pandemic provided a glue that held the Democratic Party together. Without it, they don't know what they believe.
Socialists Are Trying To Take Hold of the Democratic Party—and They're Winning
The democratic socialists taking over the Democratic Party often say they just want affordable healthcare. They actually want to end America's constitutional system as we know it.
Progressive Michigan
Plus: Youth leftist organizer wins in Michigan, Mamdani vs. business, George R.R. Martin struggles to finish Game of Thrones, and more...
Why Trump Quietly Carved Out Doctors From His Own Visa Freeze
By lifting the hold on foreign physicians, the Trump administration tacitly admitted its broad immigration restrictions aren't working.
Rand Paul's Biosimilar Drug Bill Could Cut Costs, Speed Patient Access
The Expedited Access to Biosimilars Act enables FDA approval of pharmaceutically equivalent biologic medications.
Fauci Pleads the Fifth, Pluribus, Ross Douthat's New CBS Gig
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi argue that Anthony Fauci has never fully accounted for the damage caused by COVID lockdowns—and they are not ready to forgive him for it.
Anthony Fauci Refuses to Answer Rand Paul's Questions After Diary Disclosures Go Viral
Robby Soave and Amber Duke talk about Fauci's appearance before Congress, where he pleaded the Fifth rather than address COVID's origin.
What Anthony Fauci's Diary Reveals About COVID
The details prove that the two Faucis—public Fauci and private Fauci—were totally at odds.
The Democrats Have a Socialism Problem
Plus: the DSA's policy agenda, Trump hits pause on Iran, and deregulating peptides
The Peptide Gray Market Is Already Here. The FDA Is Just Catching Up.
A key FDA advisory committee vote could bring clarity to the biohacking and alternative medicine world.
The DSA, MAGA, and the New Policy Nihilism
From rent control and Medicare for All to tariffs, politicians left and right are embracing policy ideas that have been repeatedly shown to not work.
Don't Blame AI for Your Own Medical Problems
A former pastor suing ChatGPT says the chatbot gave him life-threatening medical advice. But tech-enabled healthcare is not the problem.
This Biotech Company Has Spent Nearly 3 Years in FDA Limbo
The FDA says it can't license Regenative Lab's overseas sales today because it might change its regulations tomorrow. Now, the company is suing.
