Science
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
Hacking Life's Code and Creating New Organisms with 3-D Printed DNA
Q&A With Cambrian Genomics' Austen Heinz
Hooray for FrankenMosquitoes in the Florida Keys!
Genetically modified mosquitoes combat disease
Does Circumcision Cause Autism?
Danish study reports circumcised boys at 50 percent greater risk of autism.
Are We Becoming Morally Smarter?
The connection between increasing IQs, decreasing violence, and economic liberalism
The Measles Outbreak and the Precautionary Principle
How U.S. public health authorities helped fuel the anti-vaccine movement
I Don't Care Whether the President Believes in Evolution and Neither Should You
How is this question related to actual federal policy?
Both Liberals and Conservatives Can Have Science Bias, Says New Study
Another shocking result from social science!
Temperature Record Chicanery: An Overhyped Scandal
The real scandal is climate model failure
When Liberals Ignore Science
How do we deal with the false perception that liberals are more inclined to trust science than conservatives?
To Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate? Why We Should Consult Roe v. Wade
Who owns your body? This is a question the government does not want to answer truthfully.
Three Parent Babies Approved By British Parliament. Hooray!
Naturally the usual bioluddites are eager to stop progress.
Vaccines and Autism: Rand Paul Please Say It Ain't So!
Let's hope that the senator misspoke and will soon clarify his remarks
Gov. Chris Christie Backs Off His Bad Medical Advice on Vaccinating Kids
The balance of risks and benefits tilts overwhelmingly toward getting your kids vaccinated.
Really Depressing Survey of What Scientists and the Public Think About Science and Society
Disinformation specialists are everywhere
The Voluntarily Unvaccinated Are Harming Other People in California Measles Outbreak
Anti-vaxxers it's past time for you to get over your superstition and get your kids vaccinated.
Anti-Vaping Researchers Called Out for Misleading Cancer Exaggerations by New York Times Columnist
By opposing e-cigarettes, anti-tobacco activists are very likely killing people
Ronald Bailey Argues that Warbots Could Be More Moral than Human Soldiers
So let slip the robots of war?
Senate Votes 98 to 1: Climate Change Is Real and Not a Hoax
Senators vote 50 to 49 that it is "sense of the Senate" that "human activity significantly contributes to climate change."
BPA Safe: Yet Another Scientifically Unfounded Environmentalist Scare Bites the Dust
European Food Safety Authority finds "no consumer health risk from bisphenol-A exposure."
How the Government Subsidizes Unsustainable Development
'The rest of us are assuming all of the risks.'
Sea Level Is Not Rising Faster Than Researchers Previously Thought
Despite alarming headlines to the contrary
Video Game Violence: A Scientific 'Consensus' Cracks
Reel violence does not lead to real violence.
Can We Save Nature by Making It Economically Useless?
"Decoupling" human economy from ecology could render large areas of pastures, croplands, and managed forests too remote for exploitation.
Psychedelic Science
Despite steep regulatory barriers, researchers are exploring the therapeutic possibilities of ecstasy, acid, and mushrooms.
Is Capitalism Environmentally Unsustainable?
The goal must be to find ways for liberty and the environment to flourish together, not to sacrifice one in the vain hope of protecting the other.
