Public Health

Policy

Time For Tubby Bye Bye?

Fat as a public health issue

Ronald Bailey | 6.11.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Quacks and Flacks

The pitfalls of seeking a scientific foundation for alternative medicine.

Chris Mooney | 6.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

This Is Maine On Drugs

If you loved rent control, you'll die for drug price controls

Ronald Bailey | 5.21.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Weak Link

New grounds for skepticism about secondhand smoke claims

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2003 12:00 AM

Politics

SARS Wars

How science and technology protect us from government failures

Ronald Bailey | 4.30.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

SARS: Panic or plague?

Misinformation spreads even faster than the virus itself.

Declan McCullagh | 4.17.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Heartstopping Discovery

Do smoking bans cut heart attacks in half?

Jacob Sullum | 4.4.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Good for the Heart

Benefits of drinking

Jacob Sullum | 4.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

The Killer Fog

When green politics masquerades as environmental science.

Todd Seavey | 4.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Disease, Public Health, and Liberty

Global diseases as a tragedy of the commons

Ronald Bailey | 3.19.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

The Dose Makes the Cure

Toxicologist Edward Calabrese finds that what does not kill you can make you stronger.

Brian Doherty | 3.12.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Gary Taubes tries to overwhelm the reader with sheer verbiage

Reason Staff | 3.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

An exercise in vitriol rather than sound journalism

Gary Taubes | 3.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Kosher Cops

Should the government enforce dietary laws?

Jacob Sullum | 2.28.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

CASA de Tonter�­a

Neoprohibitionists try to vindicate a bogus number.

Jacob Sullum | 2.26.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Pinch Hit

Oral snuff as an alternative to cigarettes

Jacob Sullum | 2.5.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Pox Americana

Stop Whining, America, and Get Serious about Smallpox

Jonathan Rauch | 2.3.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

If the Fat Suit Fits…

For the litigious, fat acceptance and the war on obesity both have something to offer.

Jacob Sullum | 1.13.2003 12:00 AM

Politics

Head Games

What are the rules for defining mental illness?

Jacob Sullum | 1.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

The Booze Tube

Must teenagers be shielded from beer commercials?

Jacob Sullum | 12.20.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Hazy Reasoning

Are smoky bars and restaurants intolerable?

Jacob Sullum | 12.13.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

On Steroids?

The Times bulks up its anti-supplement coverage.

Ronald Bailey | 12.6.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Hold the Lard!

The Atkins Diet still doesn't work.

Michael Fumento | 12.5.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 12.1.2002 12:00 AM

Politics

Big Fat Idiots

Fast food lawsuits

Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Special Education Confidential

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

Lisa Snell | 12.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Letters

Reason Staff | 12.1.2002 12:00 AM

Politics

Regrets: Too Many to Mention

A Mike Bloomberg voter looks back in sorrow.

James Morrow | 10.11.2002 12:00 AM

Politics

Ideas Change the World—and One Think Tank Quietly Did

Jonathan Rauch | 10.7.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Is Violence a Disease?

Ronald Bailey | 10.3.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

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

Policy

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 8.1.2002 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

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