Global Warming Prediction 30 Years Later: How Is It Faring?
If you preach to choir, at least try to be fair in your sermon.
If you preach to choir, at least try to be fair in your sermon.
Go slow and let more people suffer and die
"Touch DNA" evidence can easily implicate the wrong person, yet police are increasingly relying on it.
A review of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
Climate models may be running 2 to 4 times too hot
Fomenting another useless moral panic over biotechnology
Scientists are trying to achieve just this goal, but some ethicists are opposed to the research
Reason TV set out to cheer up Venice Beach doomsayers with evidence of positive global trends.
"No substantiated evidence of a difference in risks to human health between current commercially available genetically engineered (GE) crops and conventionally bred crops"
Actually, the report was suppressed by the agency but its conclusions are posted below.
An analysis of 50 years of U.S. court cases shows professors seldom win in speech battles with school administrators, and it's only getting worse.
Vascular Solutions CEO Howard Root faced years of jail time in a legal battle over off-label use that has profound implications for medical innovation in America.
The uptick in warming has raised the global climate trend from +0.11 to +0.12 C per decade
Anti-GMO activist scaremongering against herbicide glyphosate almost makes Donald Trump look honest
Lancet study is far from proving its case, and highlights the difficulties of using statistical analysis to lead to causal conclusions about laws' effects.
Too weak or a giant bureaucratic threat to democracy?
Most Americans live in counties that are experiencing more pleasant weather than they did forty years ago
Another bogus scaremongering study by anti-technology activists
Research is afflicted with pervasive confirmation bias that is massively yielding false positives
"There is a chilling effect on scientists who are in extreme doubt about climate change, I think that is good."
Review of saturated fat studies "do not provide support for the traditional diet heart hypothesis."
Yuri Milner promises $100 million to research sending a fleet of laser-boosted nanocrafts to the nearest star.
Blame any zika-caused microencephaly on Friends of the Earth, the Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, and GMO Free USA
Will fading El Nino cool the globe down later this year?
Down the perilous path toward Lysenkoism in which only officially approved science is allowed
The agency always drags its feet before saying no, saying yes would require an embarrassing reversal, and the president has passed the buck to Congress.
Students for Liberty Conference on Free Market Environmentalism
A review of Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson
Saving biodiversity through markets and technology
Actually, no. The Capitol is in no danger.
Anything you think of as an environmental problem is occurring in an open-access commons.
"We closed coal plants and opened methane leaks, and the result is that things have gotten worse."
Celebrity doctor Margaret Cuomo falsely claims e-cigarettes are "at least as harmful" as the real thing.
Believers in sci-tech progress tend to be happier than the religiously faithful, says new study
Margaret Cuomo claims e-cigarettes are "at least as harmful" as the real thing.
Also carbon emissions rate highest in 66 million years
A new study indicates that marijuana's impact on crash risk is much smaller than prohibitionists claim.
Just another stupid regulatory cost with no discernible benefits to people
Reason's choice of SXSW's innovator awards
Useful science or worst case scaremongering?
More, better, and safer food - but only if regulators will stay out of the way.
"We are now at the dawn of the gene-editing age."
Psychology and the rest of science would benefit from some focused research on the problem of confirmation bias
Civil liberties and the pitfalls of predictive policing
There are good reasons to doubt that conclusion.
Contradicts claims that only 40 percent of studies could be replicated.