Hey, Fauci's Staff: You Can't Just 'Make Your Emails Disappear'
A government scientist is the latest official whose attempts to evade the Freedom of Information Act have landed him in hot water.
A government scientist is the latest official whose attempts to evade the Freedom of Information Act have landed him in hot water.
Breakthrough Institute co-founder Ted Nordhaus on climate science and climate change anxiety.
Plus, an AI-generated version of the same article
About 20 years ago, many American bees did die. Then that steadily diminished—but hysteria in the press continued.
A physicist considers whether artificial intelligence can fix science, regulation, and innovation.
A flawed scientific model continues to hinder the nuclear power industry and shape policy, holding us all back.
How did an obviously fabricated article end up in a peer-reviewed journal?
Can artificial intelligence overhaul the regulatory system?
When does a sufficiently advanced algorithm start to mimic our conception of God?
While the governor framed the legislation as necessary to protect Floridians from "the global elite," he's the real authoritarian.
Jesse Singal questions the science of "gender-affirming care."
Weather and climate disaster losses as a percentage of U.S. GDP have not increased between 1990 and 2019, a new study finds.
Science can detect increasingly small particles of plastic in our air and water. That doesn't mean it's bad for you.
Science can detect increasingly small particles of plastic in our air and water. That doesn't mean it's bad for you.
A new movement promoting scientific, technological, and economic solutions to humanity's problems emerges.
Ethan Mollick, Wharton School professor and author of Co-Intelligence, discusses AI's likely effects on business, art, and truth seeking on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
Only 22 of the 476 studies in The Anxious Generation contain data on either heavy social media use or serious mental issues among adolescents, and none have data on both.
Activists oppose research on how to safely deploy an emergency cooling system for the planet.
After botching COVID test approvals, the Food and Drug Administration wants power over thousands of other tests.
After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in February that frozen embryos were children, legislators scrambled to protect in vitro fertilization clinics.
The Royalty Transparency Act passed unanimously out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday.
In The Experience Machine, philosopher and scientist Andy Clark offers an updated theory of mind.
The jury found no real damages, but gave a sizeable punitive award that could be challenged on appeal.
More like total eclipse of the fun.
"You need meat, OK? We're going to have meat in Florida," DeSantis said during a press conference.
Officials admitted at COP28 that they are not "on track" to achieving climate goals. And they are not likely to be any time soon.
AEI's Tony Mills and British biochemist Terence Kealey debate whether science needs government funding.
Health reporter Emily Kopp and biologist Alex Washburne discuss new documents that detail plans to manipulate bat-borne coronaviruses in Wuhan on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
AEI's Tony Mills and British biochemist Terence Kealey debate whether science needs government funding.
In vitro gametogenesi could allow same-sex couples, post-menopausal women, and couples experiencing infertility to have children.
The points about marijuana's risks and benefits that the department now concedes were clear long before last August.
Republican lawmakers criticized the former NIH official for playing "semantics" about lab leaks and gain-of-function research during closed-door congressional testimony this week.
A City on Mars is a counterbalance to the growing optimism over space exploration.
The year's highlights in blame shifting.
The world will not come to its end in 2030 because of climate change.
When people from historically privileged groups are facing censorship, that doesn't mean people in historically marginalized groups are actually being empowered.
A separation of science and politics might be called for.
Reason's Zach Weissmueller talked with the senator about his quest to uncover the origins of COVID-19 and hold Anthony Fauci accountable.
Reason's Zach Weissmueller talked with the senator about his quest to uncover the origins of COVID-19 and hold Anthony Fauci accountable.
Malaria is making a comeback in the United States. Mosquitos might be part of the solution.
It's virtually certain that 2023 will be the warmest year ever in the instrumental temperature record.
The notion that COVID-19 came from a lab was once touted as misinformation. But now the FBI, the Energy Department, and others agree with Paul.
Social media overuse among teens may be a symptom, not the cause, of their distress.
The epidemiology of food and drink is a mess.
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