Half of the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
A review of The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman.
Science Policy
Silent Spring's 50-Year History of Selective Data
Rachel Carson, more than any other person, created the politicized science that afflicts today's public policy debates.
The Democratic Party's Science and Technology Policy Platform
What the Dems think about sex education, fracking, climate change, drilling, renewables, R&D 'investments,' and much more.
The Republican Party's Science and Technology Policy Platform
What the GOP thinks about sex ed, fracking, abortion, stem cells, nuclear power, climate change and more.
The 5 Dumbest Drug Laws in America
From banning the sale of magazines to regulating chemistry equipment, local and state drug warriors mainline stupidity.
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.
Mayor Bloomberg: Breastfeed or Else
Bloomberg enthusiastically favors breastfeeding infants. But he is not content to simply express his view for your consideration.
Everyone Freaks Out About Two New Climate Change Studies
New reports on global temperature trends cause a predictable media uproar
Can Most Cancer Research Be Trusted?
Addressing the problem of "academic risk" in biomedical research
Where Do the Republican Candidates Stand on Science?
A roundup of the views of GOP hopefuls on contraception, evolution, Internet freedom, and more.
The Kyoto Protocol Is Dead, Long Live the Kyoto Protocol
Reason's science correspondent sends a fifth dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban.
The End of Climategate?
New data on global temperature trends sheds light on the 2009 climate change scandal.
Are Republicans or Democrats More Anti-Science?
Comparing the scientific ignorance of our mainstream parties
Lukewarmers, Denialists, and Other Climate Change Skeptics
Impressions and reporting from the Sixth International Climate Change Conference
Congress Moves to Ban Frankenfish
Special interests trump science in the debate over transgenic salmon.
Cancun Climate Platitudes and Predictions
Second dispatch from the United Nations Climate Change conference in Cancun
Will a Republican Congress Knock Science Back Into the Stone Age?
Predicting the effect of a victory for the G.O.P. "know-nothing flat-earthers" on science policy
