Aging Is a Disease and It's Time to Cure It
After all, none of us is getting any younger.
Public Health
Time to Declare Aging a Disease and Get On with Curing It: New at Reason
Who wants to live to be a 100? Someone who is 99 years old. Especially if he feels like a 25 year-old.
FDA Salt Guidance Could Kill More People Than It Saves
Treat people as individuals not just as members of an undifferentiated public health herd
Surgeon General's Report Mistakenly Treats All Drug Use As a Problem
Vivek Murthy does not acknowledge the possibility that nonmedical consumption of psychoactive substances could be beneficial.
Five More U.S. Jurisdictions Imposed Soda Taxes Last Week
Cook County, Boulder, San Francisco, Oakland, and Albany, California, join Berkeley and Philadelphia in penalizing soft drink consumers.
Vaping Is a Gateway to Quitting
A new study that links e-cigarettes to smoking has things backward.
Porn-Regulating Prop 60 Faces Final Showdown Tonight in California
Condoms-in-porn measure pits adult-film industry and public-health groups against public hysteria and a would-be porn czar
The New York Times Highlights U.S. Officials' Irrational Hostility Toward E-Cigarettes
By portraying vaping as a public health menace, the government promotes misconceptions that deter smokers from quitting.
Want to Live Longer? Then Go to College
New study by Brookings Institution scholars reports the mortality reduction benefits of higher education.
Tennessee Department of Health Admits It Was Wrong About Reported Huge Rise in Accidental Gun Deaths
That scary 105 accidental gun death figure, more than five times the previous year? Turns out to really be 5, slightly more than a quarter of the previous year.
National Study Debunks Helena Smoking Ban Miracle (Again)
An analysis of data from nearly 2,000 counties finds no evidence that smoking restrictions produce short-term reductions in heart attacks.
More Evidence That Vaping Is Not a Gateway to Smoking
Very few nonsmoking teenagers vape regularly, and even fewer vape nicotine.
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.
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.
Most Adolescent Vapers Are Not Nicotine Users
A new study makes the CDC's equation of vaping with tobacco use look even more ridiculous.
Experiment Confirms Lifesaving Potential of E-Cigarettes
Researchers measure big declines in toxin and carcinogen exposure among smokers who switch to vaping.
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.
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.
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
You Can Get Chick-Fil-A at the DNC, But Good Luck Finding a Salad
Does Michelle Obama know the DNC is a "food desert"?
The FDA's Insane Definition of 'Tobacco Product' Drives Vaping Innovation
Two companies try to dodge onerous rules with a system that delivers only synthetic nicotine.
Does Classifying Food as 'Healthy' or 'Unhealthy' Miss the Point?
A handful of experts weigh in on a survey of nutritionist and consumer perceptions.
American Pessimism: Only 6 Percent Think the World Is Getting Better
Over the past century, the prospects and circumstances of most of humanity have spectacularly improved
E.U. Survey Finds E-Cigarettes Helped 15 Million Smokers Quit or Cut Back
There was little evidence that vaping leads to smoking.
Teenagers Smoke Less As They Vape More
The CDC's own data belie its warnings that e-cigarettes are a gateway to the real thing.
If Vaping Causes Smoking, Why Are Cigarettes Less Popular Than Ever With Teenagers?
The CDC's data belie its warnings about e-cigarettes.
Philadelphia's New Soda Tax Has Nothing to Do With Obesity
The city council rejected regressive paternalism in favor of a simple money grab.
NHS Again Denies Access to HIV Prevention Drug Because of Bureaucracy
Government control of healthcare gets dangerous when there are entrenched interests.
Clueless Legislators Deter Smokers From Vaping
California undermines public health by arbitrarily classifying e-cigarettes as tobacco products.
California Undermines Public Health by Treating E-Cigarettes Like the Real Thing
Classifying vaping devices as tobacco products will deter smokers from making a switch that could save their lives.
Judge Won't Halt San Francisco's Forced Nanny State Soda Warnings
Did you know sugar helps make you fat? Of course you did.
Why Vape? E-Cig Companies Are Not Allowed to Say.
The FDA is suppressing potentially lifesaving information about the health advantages of e-cigarettes.
The FDA's Deadly Censorship of Lifesaving E-Cigarette Information
Regulators won't let manufacturers of vaping hardware and e-liquids tell their customers the truth.
The FDA's Deadly E-Cigarette Regulations
The agency's new rules threaten products that offer a much safer alternative to smoking.
FDA Imposes a Slow-Motion Ban on E-Cigarettes
The agency's final rule leaves conventional cigarettes on the market while requiring much safer alternatives to meet prohibitive requirements.
A Bold New Plan to Help Addicts and End the Drug War
"Addiction rewires your brain like falling in love does," says Maia Szalavitz, author of "Unbroken Brain."
Government Officials Are Determined to Turn Vapers Into Scofflaws
E-cigarettes aren't just a safer alternative to the real thing, they're an innovation people plan to use whether or not scolds approve.
Royal College of Physicians Says Vaping Saves Lives
The venerable British medical society recognizes the harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
Royal College of Physicians: Vaping Can 'Prevent Almost All The Harm From Smoking'
The British medical group endorses e-cigarettes as a harm-reducing alternative to the conventional kind.
Indian Merchant Gets Three Years of 'Rigorous Imprisonment' for Selling E-Cigarettes
In the name of public health, Punjab treats vaped nicotine as an unapproved medicine.
A Soda Tax As Found Money
Hillary Clinton joins Philadelphia's mayor in playing down the levy's paternalistic purpose.
Bernie Sanders Calls Out Hillary Clinton for Supporting Soda Taxes
Nanny tendencies overcome promise not to raise taxes on the less wealthy.
Amendment Could Save the Vaping Industry From Prohibitive FDA Regulations
The reported version of an appropriations bill would change a crucial cutoff date.
Utah Governor Signs Resolution Declaring Porn a 'Public Health Crisis'
Drafted by the group formerly known as Morality in Media, the measure was passed unanimously by Utah lawmakers.
The CDC Keeps Lying About Adolescent Vaping and Tobacco Use
The agency bizarrely counts tobacco-free, noncombustible e-cigarettes as a kind of tobacco.
Lying About Snus and E-Cigarettes Is Like Blocking Access to Clean Heroin Needles
Two public health researchers condemn the "information quarantine" surrounding safer nicotine products.
