Health Archives - Page 204 of 208

Reader Mail, 11/21

Reason welcomes all responses. If you do not want your message published, please put "Not for publication" in the subject line or body of your message.

Reason Staff | 12.11.2002 12:00 AM

On Steroids?

The Times bulks up its anti-supplement coverage.

Ronald Bailey | 12.6.2002 12:00 AM

Hold the Lard!

The Atkins Diet still doesn't work.

Michael Fumento | 12.5.2002 12:00 AM

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 12.1.2002 12:00 AM

Big Fat Idiots

Fast food lawsuits

Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2002 12:00 AM

Special Education Confidential

How schools use the "learning disability" label to cover up their failures.

Lisa Snell | 12.1.2002 12:00 AM

Letters

Reason Staff | 12.1.2002 12:00 AM

Snuffing Out Freedom

Ballot initiatives as instruments of tyranny

Jacob Sullum | 11.6.2002 12:00 AM

Machine Gun Delivery

Government gets in on dope dealing.

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.4.2002 12:00 AM

Taking the Initiative

Will the feds let states try new drug policies?

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2002 12:00 AM

Patent Absurdity

Ending a drug company scam

Ronald Bailey | 10.23.2002 12:00 AM

Competition for Marijuana

Jacob Sullum | 10.21.2002 12:00 AM

More Abuses of Federal Power

Washington protects Americans from themselves.

Cathy Young | 10.15.2002 12:00 AM

Regrets: Too Many to Mention

A Mike Bloomberg voter looks back in sorrow.

James Morrow | 10.11.2002 12:00 AM

Ideas Change the World—and One Think Tank Quietly Did

Jonathan Rauch | 10.7.2002 12:00 AM

Is Violence a Disease?

Ronald Bailey | 10.3.2002 12:00 AM

Biology vs. the Blank Slate

Evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker deconstructs the great myths about how the mind works.

Nick Gillespie and Ronald Bailey | 10.1.2002 12:00 AM

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 8.1.2002 12:00 AM

Confidence Game

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

Jacob Sullum | 7.19.2002 12:00 AM

Taxed Happy

Two economists provide legislators with another reason to boost taxes.

Mike Lynch | 7.1.2002 12:00 AM

Data: Can't Give It Away

Mike Lynch | 7.1.2002 12:00 AM

Fireworked Up

Jeremy Lott | 6.24.2002 12:00 AM

Silent Spring at 40

Rachel Carson's classic is not aging well.

Ronald Bailey | 6.12.2002 12:00 AM

Subsidizing Hunger

Ronald Bailey | 6.10.2002 12:00 AM

Big Fat Lie

Saving us before we eat again.

Jacob Sullum | 6.7.2002 12:00 AM

Scanning for Health?

"Ignorance is bliss," say some doctors.

Ronald Bailey | 5.29.2002 12:00 AM

Slice of Death

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2002 12:00 AM

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

Hurting Dr. Feelgood

How Oregon punished a doctor for legally recommending medical marijuana

David Wallis | 5.7.2002 12:00 AM

Pot Shots

Jacob Sullum | 5.3.2002 12:00 AM

Free Will

Helping drug war victims

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2002 12:00 AM

I'm OK, You Suck

Popular advice books get tough.

Ana Cox | 5.1.2002 12:00 AM

Better Living Through Poison

Brian Doherty | 4.17.2002 12:00 AM

The Fat Tax Cut

Brian Doherty | 4.4.2002 12:00 AM

TB or not TB?

Ronald Bailey | 3.18.2002 12:00 AM

Drugged Up

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

Mike Lynch | 3.14.2002 12:00 AM

One Toke over the Line

The feds vs. medical pot

Sara Rimensnyder | 3.1.2002 12:00 AM

The Politics of Dead Children

Have sanctions against Iraq murdered millions?

Matt Welch | 3.1.2002 12:00 AM

Teen-Demon Tracts

Why baby-boomer parents fear their children.

Chris Lehmann | 2.1.2002 12:00 AM

Prescription Panic

How the anthrax scare challenged drug patents.

Mike Godwin | 2.1.2002 12:00 AM

Skin Deep

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

Jaime Sneider | 1.23.2002 12:00 AM

Bumps in the Night

The Accutane story is all scare, and no science.

Michael Fumento | 1.23.2002 12:00 AM

Too Many Guns?

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

Jacob Sullum | 1.4.2002 12:00 AM

Battlefield Conversions

Reason talks with three ex-warriors who now fight against the War on Drugs

Mike Lynch | 1.1.2002 12:00 AM

Hear Dick Talk, Occasionally

Why Cheney is the Bush administration's best propagandist.

Sam MacDonald | 1.1.2002 12:00 AM

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

Lighten Up, America!

Do fat people belong in public parks?

Jacob Sullum | 12.25.2001 12:00 AM

Fatwa on Fat

The Surgeon General snoops into private health, again.

Brian Doherty | 12.19.2001 12:00 AM

More