The Lancet's Hydroxychloroquine Study Is Retracted by Its Authors
The observational dataset on which it was based could not be properly audited.
The observational dataset on which it was based could not be properly audited.
The episode illustrates the perils of confirmation bias on both sides of the debate about disease control measures.
Police violence is a metaphorical disease. Coronavirus is a literal disease.
Making masks, face shields, and other protective equipment is the bottom-up, COVID-19 version of rolling bandages or knitting socks for the troops.
A major study in The Lancet said it doesn't—but it may have relied on fabricated data.
It was business as usual for federal prosecutors.
Next week the Federalist Society is hosting an online conference on the legal issues raised by the pandemic.
Bill de Blasio and Phil Murphy evince little sympathy for nail salon owners or Jewish mourners.
Two models suggest that broad restrictions had less impact on the epidemic than commonly thought.
I debated Prof. F.E. Guerra-Pujol. Prominent takings lawyer Robert Thomas moderated.
Millions of people out of a job and stuck at home for months is a recipe for civil unrest.
How will residents of the City That Never Sleeps recover from being sentenced to their own apartments?
As SCOTUS declines to issue an injunction, the chief justice says the state's COVID-19 control measures seem consistent with the First Amendment.
"Although California's guidelines place restrictions on places of worship," Roberts wrote, "those restrictions appear consistent with the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment."
Such laws end up causing more shortages than they solve, especially during a crisis.
What happened to staying at home to keep grandparents safe no matter what?
Making cheap tests widely available would go a long way toward crushing the pandemic.
Several courts have invalidated elements of state shelter-in-place orders. Constitutional law Professor Josh Blackman says that the longer they continue, the less legal they become.
Top-down, one-size-fits-few mandates are recipes for conflict.
The right's response to the coronavirus lockdowns brings out a longstanding American paradox.
It's great that Gov. Gavin Newsom is finally looking at costs and benefits. But don't kid yourself. None of it has anything to do with "science."
Two models generate strikingly different estimates.
No, Gates didn't create COVID-19, and he does not want to microchip us all.
The bad policy and worse politics of coronavirus stimulus spending
Supreme Court precedent suggests COVID-19 restrictions that discriminate against churches are presumptively unconstitutional.
Doing so can potentially save many thousands of lives. And moral objections to this practice are weak. The issues here are very similar to the longstanding debate over whether we should legalize organ markets.
It took a crisis for policymakers to see that hundreds of rules were not worth the burdens they imposed.
In some states, the total is as high as 65 percent. It's a stunning statistic that might force policy makers to reconsider their approach to fighting the coronavirus.
Fate Vincent Winslow, who has never committed a violent crime, fears catching coronavirus in prison.
The health crisis revealed red tape that hobbles our lives even in good times.
Control measures should be based on emerging evidence about the danger posed by the virus.
The Reason Roundtable grapples with virus-swapping, policy-bungling, and Libertarian politics.
The World Health Organization pauses clinical trials in light of disturbing new results.
They’re still not being treated the same as secular places of gathering, so a legal challenge continues.
Competent responses to the crisis have come from people and organizations voluntarily helping each other and themselves.
Will they keep it in mind even if Joe Biden becomes president?
It’s not another Free State Project, just a way to live a better life during the coronavirus era.
That rate is much lower than the numbers used in the horrifying projections that shaped the government response to the epidemic.
The pandemic has exposed many of America’s destructive barriers to work. It’s time to eliminate them.
In-person teaching has major advantages over the online version. Here are some ways to restore it, while mitigating risk.