OSHA's Vaccine Mandate Illustrates the Perils of Reflexively Deferring to Government Experts
The question for the Supreme Court was not whether the policy was wise but whether it was legal.
The question for the Supreme Court was not whether the policy was wise but whether it was legal.
Defenders of the CDC eviction moratorium predicted a "tsunami" of evictions would happen if the policy were rescinded. That hasn't happened.
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The CDC director's explanation of her agency's confusing advice about home COVID-19 testing is hard to understand.
Plus, the CDC's amateur psychoanalyzing.
A new study of 915 childhood COVID-19 hospitalizations found that most involved underlying conditions.
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Farewell to a Biden White House messaging strategy that was terrible long before Omicron
Rochelle Walensky willfully ignores the weaknesses of a study she repeatedly cited to justify "universal masking" of students.
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While the press and politicians try to make the virus a political morality play, Reason keeps its head even while screaming at anti-scientific restrictionism.
Instead of pining for authoritarian control, maybe U.S. health officials could tell the FDA to stop standing in the way of progress.
I wrote an amicus brief on behalf of the Cato Institute, addressing the important nondelegation and "major questions" issues raised by the federal government's awful policy.
After months of inconsistent messaging and a chaotic track record, will anybody trust it?
A federal judge concluded that the Texas governor's ban on mask mandates illegally discriminated against students with disabilities.
Rochelle Walensky seems to be relying on a laboratory study that did not measure infection risk.
So much for politicians, educators, and public health officials learning a damn thing from Tuesday's election.
Cigarette sales rose last year for the first time in two decades, while a survey of high school seniors found they were vaping less but smoking more.
Because the agency ties mask recommendations to virus transmission rather than serious cases, its guidance is unlikely to change anytime soon.
Director Rochelle Walensky characterizes the potential unmasking of even vaccinated children as being "complacent."
Denmark recently lifted all COVID mandates. The U.S. should do the same.
The failure of legal challenges obscures an ongoing scientific debate.
Vaccine hesitancy can, in part, be laid at the feet of experts who betrayed the public’s trust.
Pandemic bans on evictions were supposed to be a temporary measure, but politicians keep extending them.
The agency seems inclined to ban the vaping products that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer because teenagers also like them.
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When you are already convinced a policy makes sense, any evidence will do.
If the government is going to approve them for everyone eventually, why wait?
The Keeping Renters Safe Act would give bureaucrats a blank check to ban evictions during future outbreaks.
The agency didn't just botch the initial test. It resisted mass testing.
The expulsions, ordered by the CDC for the supposed purpose of stopping the spread of Covid-19, are illegal for much the same reasons as was the CDC eviction moratorium recently struck down by the Supreme Court.
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The board game lets gamers indulge in a little cooperative epidemiological roleplay.
New research shows incidental and mild infections account for a large and rising share of that widely cited number.
Biden's sudden embrace of a federal vaccine requirement seems inconsistent with his acknowledgment that he cannot mandate every COVID-19 precaution he'd like people to follow.
The president seems determined to anoint the agency’s director as the nation’s COVID-19 dictator, no matter what the law says.
If all sensible people agree that students should be forced to wear masks, why do other countries reject that policy?
The agency returns to a research area where it has caused much controversy in the past.
The Court said it "strains credulity" to believe that Congress gave the CDC the "breathtaking amount of authority" it asserted.
This outcome was widely expected by legal commentators.
Hochul’s office reports that some 55,400 people have died of the coronavirus in New York, much higher than the 43,400 claimed by Cuomo, who left office Monday.
The ultra-risk averse agency continues to misunderstand how people actually behave in the wild.
The studies cited by the CDC do not show that preventing COVID-19 outbreaks requires forcing students to cover their faces.
The government "strongly recommends" masking at private outdoor gatherings as well.
If so, public health officials have compounded the problem with disingenuous arguments, dubious policy shifts, and misleading statements.
Next stop, Supreme Court?
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