Health
The Problem With Obamacare Isn't That It Was Designed to Fail—It's That It Was Designed to Pass
The law's failures stem from its many compromises and concessions to political reality.
More Evidence That Vaping Is Not a Gateway to Smoking
Very few nonsmoking teenagers vape regularly, and even fewer vape nicotine.
Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?
Changing café culture and international do-gooderism collide on a troubled island.
After Banning Kratom, DEA Says It Might Be a Useful Medicine
"Our goal is to make sure this is available," a spokesman says.
Two New Studies Discredit the CDC's Dire Warnings About E-Cigarettes and Teenagers
Very few nonsmoking teenagers vape regularly, and even fewer vape nicotine.
Why You Shouldn't Trust the Administration When It Says It Will Fix Obamacare
Ongoing fraud vulnerabilities reveal the administration's inability to address the health law's persistent problems.
Study Suggests Pot Has Been Blamed for Fetal Risks Caused by Tobacco
After adjustment for confounding variables, the association between marijuana use and adverse neonatal outcomes disappears.
Leading Legalization Opponent to Sell Medicine That Competes Directly With Marijuana
Insys, which plans to introduce an oral THC spray, says legal pot could "significantly limit" its commercial prospects.
The NFL Should Let Players Use Marijuana
Former football players push league to accept medical marijuana.
Opioid Maker Donates to Help Halt Marijuana Legalization in Arizona
As if fentanyl's public relations aren't bad enough.
Liberals Have No Clue How to Fix Obamacare
The president's signature law is failing spectacularly.
The American Legion Wants Marijuana Reclassified to Help Treat PTSD
How much do politicians really care about veterans' health?
How To Build a Better EpiPen—or Something Totally Different That's Much Better
Drug company Mylan is able to charge monopoly prices due to government regulation, not free-market forces.
Most Adolescent Vapers Are Not Nicotine Users
A new study makes the CDC's equation of vaping with tobacco use look even more ridiculous.
Pamela Anderson Warns That 'The Crack Babies of Porn' Are Nigh
In the Wall Street Journal, the ex-Playboy model blames online-porn for Anthony Weiner's texting troubles & kids propelled "warp-speed into the dark side."
A Few Bureaucratic Tweaks Won't Fix Obamacare's Deeper Problems
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed changes to the law's risk adjustment formula in effort to calm frustrated insurers.
9th Circuit Says Medical Marijuana Cardholders Have No Second Amendment Rights
Citing "a strong link between drug use and violence," the appeals court says it's reasonable to stop patients from buying guns.
Designer Babies and Human Enhancement: Ronald Bailey Lectures in Moscow
Also most babies will be created using skin cells and the bioethics of radical life extension
When Medicine Serves the Police: A Cautionary Tale from Burning Man
Last year a woman went into respiratory failure when a medic shot her with ketamine to help cops subdue her.
Obamacare Is Stuck in a Feedback Loop of Bad Policy and Bad Politics
The debate over whether the health law should even exist has never been resolved, making policy fixes all but impossible.
Your Neighbors Get to Vote on How Much Zika Risk You Have to Take
It's democratic, so what could possibly be wrong with that?
Most Research Results Are Wrong or Useless: New at Reason
"Science, the pride of modernity, our one source of objective knowledge, is in deep trouble."
Libertarian Gary Johnson Comes Out Against Carbon Taxes, Mandatory Vaccines
Libertarian Party candidate clarifies positions at New Hampshire rally.
Want to Reduce the Price of EpiPens? Approve Some Competition!
Capitalism isn't to blame. It's the exact opposite.
The Case for Compensating Bone-Marrow Donors
Short dramatic film from Institute for Justice lays out the case for paying the people who give marrow, organs, and more.
DEA Concession Means Marijuana Could Be Approved As a Medicine
With NIDA as the only legal source of cannabis for research, meeting FDA requirements was impossible.
Obamacare Leaves Many With Fewer Choices and Higher Prices
Insurers are bolting from the health law's exchanges, and premiums are rising dramatically.
How Reforming Licensing Laws Can Help Fix America's Dentist Shortage
More states should follow Minnesota's lead by legalizing mid-level dental professionals.
Experiment Confirms Lifesaving Potential of E-Cigarettes
Researchers measure big declines in toxin and carcinogen exposure among smokers who switch to vaping.
Marijuana's Mystifying Misclassification
A logic-defying law lets the DEA keep cannabis in a more restrictive category than morphine, cocaine, PCP, and methamphetamine.
FDA Says Nicotine-Free E-Liquids Are Tobacco Products in 'Certain Circumstances'
Manufacturers will have to guess which circumstances those are, because the FDA won't say.
Congress and the DEA Share the Blame for Marijuana's Mystifying Misclassification
The Controlled Substances Act established arbitrary rules that make it impossible to properly categorize many drugs.
Crony Capitalism is a Feature (Not a Bug) of Obamacare
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has always been an alliance of big business and big government.
The Return of the Obamacare Death Spiral
The health law falters as yet another major insurer pulls back from the exchanges.
9th Circuit Says Feds May Not Prosecute State-Legal Medical Marijuana Suppliers
The appeals court rules that Congress has forbidden such interference.
FDA E-Cigarette Regulations Give Smoking a Boost
The new rules will discourage smokers from switching to vaping, a much less dangerous alternative.
FDA Assigns Zero Value to Smokers Who Die Because of Its E-Cigarette Regulations
New rules will dramatically reduce competition, variety, and innovation, retarding the replacement of smoking with a much safer alternative.
DEA Rejects Marijuana Rescheduling but Eliminates a Research Barrier
The agency won't reclassify cannabis but will make it easier for scientists to get the kind they need.
More Good News: U.S. Teen Birth Rate Continues to Fall
U.S. total fertility rate close to lowest ever too
Michael Phelps's Back Spots Deserve a Gold Medal in Pseudoscience
Has the entire U.S. Olympic team fallen for the superstition of cupping?
Human-Animal Chimeras Are O.K., Argues Ronald Bailey on NPR's Airtalk
National Institutes of Health bioethicists agree with me and lift research moratorium
FDA Finally Approves 'Friendly' GMO Mosquitoes
Just as Zika virus breaks out in Florida - coincidence?
