Biotechnology
Why Do People Believe Scientifically Untrue Things?
Because to do otherwise would be immoral.
The Supreme Court Considers Biotech Seed Patents
What are the limits to patents on self-replicating technologies?
California Initiative Puts Profit Ahead of Science
Proposition 37 props up profits for organic growers and denies the scientific consensus in favor of biotech crops.
Is Assisted Reproduction Too Risky for Kids?
The bioethics of in vitro fertilization and birth defects
The Case for Enhancing People
Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey argues for using biotech, nanotech, and infotech to enhance human physical, intellectual, and emotional capabilities
Is Transhumanism Coercive?
Forcing humanity to remain relatively stupid and sick doesn't make us freer
An Environmentalist Joins the Reality-Based Community
A review of Mark Lynas' The God Species
Among the Biotech Conventioneers
A dispatch on the value of failed drugs, new vaccines against superbugs, and the prospect of a molecular stethoscope.
Egg Recall Hatches More Regulations
More FDA regulations don't always mean greater food safety.
Live Forever, Or Die Trying
Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Weiner surveys the state of immortality research.
Citizen Science, Microfinanced Research, Patent Trolls, and Pharma Prizes
A final dispatch from the Open Science Summit.
Scenes from the Open Science Summit
Ronald Bailey's first dispatch from the conference that aims to launch Enlightenment 2.0
Who's Afraid of Synthetic Biology?
Don't let fears about frankenmicrobes halt promising research.
Radical Life Extension and the Problem of Malthusian Hells
Is living longer in an overcrowded world better than the alternative?
Bjorn Lomborg & The Copenhagen Consenus: What's The Best Way to Live With Global Warming?
Geo-engineering is most cost-effective; carbon taxes the least.
