Health

Policy

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 8.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Confidence Game

Antidepressants may be placebos, but that doesn't mean they don't work.

Jacob Sullum | 7.19.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Taxed Happy

Two economists provide legislators with another reason to boost taxes.

Mike Lynch | 7.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Data: Can't Give It Away

Mike Lynch | 7.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Fireworked Up

Jeremy Lott | 6.24.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Silent Spring at 40

Rachel Carson's classic is not aging well.

Ronald Bailey | 6.12.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Subsidizing Hunger

Ronald Bailey | 6.10.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Big Fat Lie

Saving us before we eat again.

Jacob Sullum | 6.7.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Scanning for Health?

"Ignorance is bliss," say some doctors.

Ronald Bailey | 5.29.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Slice of Death

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Food Fight

What do a fat-accepting aerobics instructor and a fact-rejecting psychology professor have in common?

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

I'm OK, You Suck

Popular advice books get tough.

Ana Cox | 5.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Better Living Through Poison

Brian Doherty | 4.17.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

The Fat Tax Cut

Brian Doherty | 4.4.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

TB or not TB?

Ronald Bailey | 3.18.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Drugged Up

Claritin's manufacturer decides it's safe after all.

Mike Lynch | 3.14.2002 12:00 AM

Politics

The Politics of Dead Children

Have sanctions against Iraq murdered millions?

Matt Welch | 3.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Teen-Demon Tracts

Why baby-boomer parents fear their children.

Chris Lehmann | 2.1.2002 12:00 AM

Politics

Prescription Panic

How the anthrax scare challenged drug patents.

Mike Godwin | 2.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Skin Deep

Accutane didn't depress me. It helped me live again

Jaime Sneider | 1.23.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Bumps in the Night

The Accutane story is all scare, and no science.

Michael Fumento | 1.23.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Too Many Guns?

Restricting the supply of firearms could cost lives rather than save them.

Jacob Sullum | 1.4.2002 12:00 AM

Politics

Hear Dick Talk, Occasionally

Why Cheney is the Bush administration's best propagandist.

Sam MacDonald | 1.1.2002 12:00 AM

Politics

WHO Cares?

The World Health Organization cares more about its own life than the lives of the poor.

Brian Doherty | 1.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Lighten Up, America!

Do fat people belong in public parks?

Jacob Sullum | 12.25.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Fatwa on Fat

The Surgeon General snoops into private health, again.

Brian Doherty | 12.19.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Killing a Painkiller

The OxyContin hysteria inflicts pain.

Jacob Sullum | 12.18.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

"Impurifying our precious bodily fluids"

Fear of fluoridation takes a left turn

Ronald Bailey | 12.5.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Anthrax Attack?

Probably, but that's no reason to panic.

Ronald Bailey | 10.10.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Smoke-Free or Free to Smoke?

Robert Levy | 8.23.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Fungiphobia

Jacob Sullum | 8.21.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Pill Popping

The debate over whether oral contraceptives should be covered by insurance misses the real point.

Sara Rimensnyder | 6.22.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Beyond Belief

Jacob Sullum | 6.12.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Letters

Reason Staff | 6.1.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Paying Through the Nose

Jacob Sullum | 5.22.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Don't Blame the Suburbs for Obesity

Nick Gillespie | 5.9.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Manufacturing Fear

An anti-pesticide group twists the truth for financial gain

Ronald Bailey | 5.9.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Adding Insult to Injury

Jacob Sullum | 5.8.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Weird Science

How Fat and Salt Became Bad

Ronald Bailey | 5.2.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Cleaning Out the Stacks

Sara Rimensnyder | 5.1.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

False Diagnosis

When it comes to gender, doctors don't play favorites.

Cathy Young | 5.1.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Shrink Control

The limits of a psychiatrist's skepticism

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Drunk with Power

The case against court-imposed 12-step treatments

Stanton Peele | 5.1.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Over Their Heads

Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Synthetic Chemicals and Bill Moyers

Ronald Bailey | 3.28.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Disarming Questions

Jacob Sullum | 3.27.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Medicalizing childhood

Cathy Young | 3.14.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

What Cancer Epidemic?

Ronald Bailey | 3.7.2001 12:00 AM