Science
Two Reviews Find Substantial Evidence That Marijuana Relieves Pain, Nausea, and Spasticity
The authors say the evidence supporting most other applications is weak.
Sperm Apocalypse: Are You Just A Quarter of the Man Your Father Was?
Danish researcher claims that plastics and cosmetics are emasculating.
Obama Administration Eliminates Gratuitous Barrier to Medical Marijuana Research
Scientists studying therapeutic applications for cannabis will no longer need Public Health Service approval.
Climate Wars and the Damage Done to the Credibility of Science
Matt Ridley explains how he lost trust in climate science
Ronald Bailey Argues that People Should Be Free to Assert Whatever Gender or Racial Identity They Feel.
Jenner is a woman and Dolezal is black - it's no big deal!
Jenner Is a Woman and Dolezal Is Black: Self-Fashioning in the 21st Century
People should be free to assert whatever gender or racial identity they feel.
Pope Francis Really Hates Modern Technology and Economic Progress
Which is unfortunate since only technological progress and economic growth can effectively address environmental problems
The Left's Bad Ideas About Science Are More Harmful Than the Right's
The contemporary anti-science left
FrankenMoths Attack Organic Farmers in Upstate New York
Or so some hyperventilating scaremongering nitwits would have you think.
New Article Blasts Feds' 'Pseudoscientific Methods' For Establishing Dietary Guidelines
A stinging critique of the shabby science that supports federal recommendations
Most Preclinical Life Science Research Is Irreproducible Bunk
$28 billion in research funding wasted every year.
Friday A/V Club: Vintage Metric Propaganda to Warm Lincoln Chafee's Heart
Plus an anti-metrification argument from the Whole Earth Catalog's Stewart Brand
Fracking Impact on Drinking Water Negligible, Says EPA
Environmentalists demands to ban fracking are set back.
No Global Warming Hiatus After All?
New study adjusts sea surface temperature data and finds warming after all.
Global Temperature: What Do You Want It to Be?
New study suggests "hiatus" could last 30 more years.
Ronald Bailey Hangs Out WIth the Bioethicists at the BEINGS 2015 Summit
Is life better than death; health better disease; wealth better than poverty? Opinions vary.
Block Biotech Progress or Embrace It? Bioethicists Debate What's to Come.
Is progress itself an ethical obligation? Opinions vary.
Clickbaiting Misinformation: Your Wifi Will Kill You - NOT
Top story at Drudge is CBS article promoting discredited activist claims about electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
Chipotle Feeds Anti-Scientific Derangement Syndrome, Says WaPo Columnist
Voluntary GMO labeling will express religious views and strictures much like halal and kosher labels do now.
By Feeding Bogus GMO Fears, Chipotle Treats Customers Like Idiots
The food chain tries to profit from anti-biotech propaganda
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Transhumanism and the Singularity…
...but were afraid to ask. Q&A with R.U. Sirius & Jay Cornell, authors of Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism & the Singularity.
Fracking Fearmongering: Another "Regulatory Science" Confirmation
Science: Searching really hard until you find what you want?
The FBI's Forensics Disaster
This latest failure of criminal science again highlights the need for massive reforms at law enforcement agencies.
Satellite Global Temperature Trend Revised Significantly Downward
Climate model projections fail even worse, running way too hot, if these data stand up to scrutiny
Gene-Editing Human Embryos Is Ethical
Bioethicists and scientists who say otherwise are wrong.
Senate Committee Votes In Favor of EPA Secret Science Reform Act
Environmental activists favor secret science
Judge Rules that Really Stupid Vermont Law May Be Able to Force GMO-Labels on Food Companies
Legislators and judge fall for anti-biotech disinformation campaign
Man-made Global Warming Likely to Be Moderate, Says Study
Alternatively: model-predicted catastrophic warming is unlikely
Project Launched to Check Global Temperature Records
The Global Warming Policy Foundation calls for evidence for the validity of temperature records
Nobel Laureates Call For Halting Scientific and Ethical Progress
Permissionless innovation works best for both scientific and moral progress.
Tapping Water Markets in California
Drought may force the unthinkable: resorting to property rights and markets.
Robert Kennedy Jr. Raves On About the Vaccination "Holocaust"
Not a shred of scientific evidence supports his ranting
Ronald Bailey Refuted On Evidence for Man-Made Climate Change?
Roy Spencer and Christopher Monckton school me on climate change
Ronald Bailey Asks: What Would Convince You That Man-Made Global Warming Is Real?
Scientific evidence does not mandate any particular policy.
What Evidence Would Persuade You That Man-Made Climate Change Is Real?
Scientific evidence does not mandate any particular policy.
Ronald Bailey Scores Six Republican Presidential Wannabes on Science Issues
The results are pretty disappointing
How Would-Be Republican Presidential Candidates Score on Science
Pass, fail, or pander on the issues?
Liberals Better Than Conservatives Again, Says New Study on Who's Happier
I am just happy to be a libertarian.
The Blockchain: A Supercomputer for Reality
"Everything that can be decentralized, will be decentralized."
Big Bang Denialism?*
Climate change, evolution, vaccines, genetically modified crops, and now the origin of the universe!
WATCH: Hacking Life's Code and Creating New Organisms with 3-D Printed DNA
Q&A With Cambrian Genomics' Austen Heinz
