DIY Biohackers Are Editing Genes in Garages and Kitchens
With the latest breakthroughs in the life sciences, who needs a lab or degree?
With the latest breakthroughs in the life sciences, who needs a lab or degree?
The Krispy Kreme Caper illustrates the limits of drug field tests and the cops who perform them.
As guns proliferated in movies, accidental gun deaths and violent crime fell dramatically.
Claims of "frightening and high" recidivism rates, endorsed by the Supreme Court, have no basis in fact.
Global study goes against the grain on fats, fruits, and dietary dogma
Although the research has federal approval, the Phoenix V.A. hospital is blocking efforts to recruit subjects.
A federal program to help public-school students eat healthier is based on highly problematic-and perhaps fraudulent-research.
The designation should speed the drug's approval as a prescription medicine, which could happen as soon as 2021.
An effective way to improve climate science and challenge the "climate establishment"?
How will the struggle between the permanent bureaucracy and the EPA's new leadership play out?
New York Times columnist notes the uncertainties in climate science; progressives want him fired.
There's bad and indescribably bad. And then there's "My Sex Junk," a segment on Bill Nye Saves the World.
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Do researchers risk becoming just another leftwing interest group?
At risk of becoming just another special interest?
Here's hoping that we've not been born one generation too early.
Two new studies report experiments that successfully reverse aging
Reason's choice of SXSW's 2017 innovator awards
The NIH's track record suggest that Trump's proposed $6 billion budget cut won't be the end of science, progress, or discoveries.
Biohackers, much like their computer hacker forebears, prefer asking for forgiveness rather than permission.
The attorney general claims he is willing to be refuted by science. His history suggests otherwise.
The future is rushing toward us. Unfortunately, the government wants to help.
Exploring the absurdities of modern nutritional epidemiology.
None of his cabinet picks seem to think that man-made climate change is hoax.
The results of only two out of five cancer studies could be replicated
It fills a new book from the National Academy of Sciences.
The lifetime risk of cancer for American men is 1 in 2. For women it's 1 in 3.
Contra Congressional Republicans, fetal tissue has been used to make vaccines for rabies, chicken pox, shingles, Hepatitis A, polio, rubella, and the adenovirus.
Sometimes climate science just doesn't seem all that "settled."
Getting Risk Right is a potent antidote to the toxic misinformation peddled by activist scaremongers
Getting Risk Right reviewed by Ronald Bailey
The new report appears to be a parting gift to anti-fracking activists from the Obama administration.
A look at several mosquito-modification projects and the political and cultural pushback they're facing.
A single dose of the banned psychedelic led to large and lasting psychological improvements.
Banned in 1985, the "empathogen" could be legally available as a psychotherapeutic catalyst as soon as 2021.
The venerable British medical journal urges governments to "investigate more effective alternatives to criminalisation of drug use and supply."
USDA's diet guidelines are a mess because the information it uses is suspect.
Podcast: Election 2016, Americans should be proud of the free speech laws that gave rise to Donald Trump and how Tom Wolfe is "America's greatest living essayist."
Malthusianism might make a good movie plot, but it is just fiction.
Toxicologists liken the endocrine disruption hypothesis to homeopathy.
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