Public Health

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

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

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

Beyond Belief

Jacob Sullum | 6.12.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Letters

Reason Staff | 6.1.2001 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

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

What Cancer Epidemic?

Ronald Bailey | 3.7.2001 12:00 AM

Politics

Don't Label Me and the Tragedy of the Anticommons.

Ronald Bailey | 2.21.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Doctor's Orders

Parents battle medical authorities for control of their children.

Brian Doherty | 2.1.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

How to Build a Better Cigarette—and How to Snuff It Out

Jonathan Rauch | 1.13.2001 12:00 AM

Policy

Greens vs. the World's Poor

Limited use of DDT could save millions from malaria. So why are environmentalists and the U.N. hellbent on ending its production?

Ronald Bailey | 11.29.2000 12:00 AM

Politics

AIDS Scare

Brian Doherty | 11.1.2000 12:00 AM

Policy

Buff Enough?

Jonathan Rauch | 11.1.2000 12:00 AM

Policy

Drugs of Choice

Jacob Sullum | 10.1.2000 12:00 AM

Policy

Science and Self-Doubt

Why animal researchers must remember that human beings are special.

Frederick Goodwin and Adrian Morrison | 10.1.2000 12:00 AM