Public Health

Politics

Among the Biotech Conventioneers

A dispatch on the value of failed drugs, new vaccines against superbugs, and the prospect of a molecular stethoscope.

Ronald Bailey | 6.28.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

No Cigars in Cigar City

Jacob Sullum | 6.24.2011 4:35 PM

Policy

Another Victory in Drug Harm Multiplication

Jacob Sullum | 6.22.2011 4:49 PM

Policy

Evidently Smoking Is Bad for You

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2011 6:12 PM

Policy

A Dose of Depressing Vaccine Data

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.15.2011 12:30 PM

Policy

Uncle Sam's Cool New Way of Nagging You to Eat Your Vegetables

Jacob Sullum | 6.6.2011 3:20 PM

Politics

Organic Folks Don Their Tin Foil Hats To Explain Outbreak of Deadly E. Coli Bacteria

Ronald Bailey | 6.6.2011 3:02 PM

Politics

San Francisco Circumcision Intactivist's Anti-Semitic Comix

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.5.2011 8:48 PM

Politics

Debating Federally Funded School Lunches on Federally Funded Radio

Jacob Sullum | 6.3.2011 10:47 AM

Policy

Muddying the Hookah Water

Jacob Sullum | 6.1.2011 5:52 PM

Policy

Easy Work Joins Delicious Food As a Public Health Menace

Jacob Sullum | 5.27.2011 5:55 PM

Policy

Be Thankful You Can Still Buy That Jumbo Bottle of Tylenol

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2011 6:16 PM

Policy

Trans Fat Expressway to Your Heart or, Land of Lincoln Wants to Jump on Ban Wagon

Nick Gillespie | 5.10.2011 4:05 PM

Policy

Do Menthol Cigarettes Taste Too Good to Be Legal?

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2011 3:37 PM

Policy

Mass Circumcision Party Seeks Guiness Book Record

Nick Gillespie | 5.9.2011 9:01 AM

Policy

Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Smoking Bans on Public Property

Jacob Sullum | 5.6.2011 2:18 PM

Policy

Could Eating Less Salt Be Deadly?

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2011 1:01 PM

Policy

E-Cigarettes Will Remain Legal but Unregulated Until the FDA Issues New Rules

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2011 2:15 PM

Policy

How Did Toucan Sam Became a Scapebird for Childhood Obesity?

Jacob Sullum | 4.29.2011 1:42 PM

Policy

Wanted: Objective Scientific Studies of Ways to Constrain the Anti-Social Behavior of Evil, Food-Foisting Corporations

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2011 4:26 PM

Policy

FDA Will Regulate E-Cigarettes As Tobacco Products

Jacob Sullum | 4.27.2011 11:57 AM

Policy

Eat As I Say, Not As I Eat

Jacob Sullum | 4.8.2011 5:28 PM

Policy

Wet and Wild Teens

Jacob Sullum | 4.8.2011 4:54 PM

Policy

Can't Shake the Shake Shakes

Jacob Sullum | 4.6.2011 1:39 PM

Politics

CARE Enough to Screw Over Wine Consumers

Jacob Sullum | 4.4.2011 6:22 PM

Policy

Briefly Noted: A History of Paternalism

Radley Balko | 4.4.2011 4:20 PM

Policy

Alcohol Wholesalers Protect Maryland's Communities From the Horror of Online Wine Sales

Jacob Sullum | 3.28.2011 5:38 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: LA Food Police Ban Burger Joints - Is Your City Next?

Reason Staff | 3.23.2011 11:55 AM

Policy

'A Lot of Kids Are Going to Start Smoking Because of This Movie'

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2011 3:22 PM

Politics

More Co-Conspirators in the Light Cigarette 'Fraud'

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2011 12:50 PM

Politics

What About 'Corrective Statements' for the Government?

Jacob Sullum | 2.28.2011 1:24 PM

Policy

Wait, Smoking Is Dangerous?

The FDA's new crusade

Jacob Sullum | 2.18.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

New York's Doomsday Manual

Damon Root | 2.15.2011 3:32 PM

Policy

It Turns Out Nonalcoholic Energy Drinks Are Also an Intolerable Threat to the Youth of America

Jacob Sullum | 2.14.2011 6:34 PM

Politics

Making Sure Public Health Authorities Don't Say Anything That Might Help Public Health, Illegal Drug Edition

Brian Doherty | 2.10.2011 2:31 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Nanny of the Month (Jan 2011) Drug Testing 11-year-olds! Fining iPod Users!

Reason Staff | 2.1.2011 12:40 PM

Policy

Rand On the Dole

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.30.2011 2:18 AM

Policy

Are the French Sophisticated Enough to Tolerate Images of Cigarettes?

Jacob Sullum | 1.24.2011 3:18 PM

Policy

Nudgers vs. Nannies

The civil war between British busybodies

Brendan O'Neill | 1.4.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Judge Says New York City Can't Force Cigarette Sellers to Scare Away Their Customers

Jacob Sullum | 12.30.2010 11:19 AM

Policy

Anti-Smoking Lie of the Year

Jacob Sullum | 12.29.2010 2:49 PM

Policy

NYC's Grease Trap Gestapo Now Friendlier and More Accessible

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.29.2010 9:49 AM

Politics

Follow the Bouncing Buck

The year's highlights in blame shifting

Jacob Sullum | 12.29.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

The Public Health Case for Electronic Cigarettes

Jacob Sullum | 12.22.2010 5:17 PM

Policy

Who Will Train the Twinkie-Sniffing Dogs?

Jacob Sullum | 12.22.2010 2:33 PM

Policy

First Nationwide Study Finds No Link Between Smoking Bans and Reductions in Heart Attacks

Jacob Sullum | 12.20.2010 11:45 AM