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Experts

RFK Jr. | Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom

Vaccines

Under RFK Jr., Vaccine Approval Is Getting More Politicized, Not Less

The Health and Human Services secretary appointed several anti-vaxxer-adjacent members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

Ronald Bailey | 6.12.2025 7:00 PM

2024 in orange letters against a yellow background with green arrows | Lex Villena

Politics

In 2024, Teens Will Get Pregnant in Driverless Cars

Plus: State officials attempt to ban Donald Trump from 2024 election ballots.

Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, and Zach Weissmueller | 1.2.2024 4:53 PM

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Budget

The U.S. Credit Rating Just Dropped. It's Time for Radical Budget Reform.

The lack of oversight and the general absence of a long-term vision is creating inefficiency, waste, and red ink as far as the eye can see.

Veronique de Rugy | 8.10.2023 12:01 AM

Free Speech

Interesting Case on Expert Evidence in Libel Cases

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 5.3.2022 1:28 PM

polspphotos782737 | Leigh Vogel/CNP / Polaris/Newscom

Coronavirus

Public Health Experts Have Lost the Benefit of the Doubt

The decision by the CDC and FDA to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was a disastrous misstep.

Robby Soave | 4.14.2021 1:51 PM

abaphotosthree061722 | Glories Francois/ABACA/Newscom

Coronavirus

Greta Thunberg Isn't a Coronavirus Expert

Electing celebrities won't fix what's wrong with American politics, and encouraging their performative antics won't either. CNN should do better.

Eric Boehm | 5.13.2020 6:30 PM

Extremism

Volokh Conspiracy

The Growth of the "Cultic Milieu" and the Spread of Harmful Ideas

Historian Stephen Davies provides a good explanation of why fringe "cultic milieu" ideas are growing in influence. It's a troubling development, but not one that should lead us to categorically abjure non-mainstream political ideas.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.7.2019 6:05 PM

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Energy & Environment

Master Resource Reprises My Takedown of the National Academy of Sciences' Energy Projections

How is America's Energy Future looking nine years after I first panned it? Not so good.

Ronald Bailey | 1.19.2018 2:01 PM

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Knowledge

You Are Ignorant, But Not Necessarily Dumb.

A review of The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

Ronald Bailey | 5.5.2017 1:30 PM

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Experts

The Limits of Expertise

A defense of experts exhibits the very problems it complains about.

Noah Berlatsky | 3.26.2017 6:00 AM

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Politics

Federal Involvement Is the Problem With Common Core, Education Experts Agree

Patrick Hannaford | 10.23.2014 3:33 PM

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Policy

Leave It to the Experts, or, Whaddya Mean She's Having a Baby?

J.D. Tuccille | 12.20.2013 10:26 AM

Politics

Do We Live in a Post-Truth Era?

Experts manufacture whatever facts an activist, politician, or bureaucrat needs.

Ronald Bailey | 2.1.2013 4:30 PM

Science

Ronald Bailey: Do We Live in a Post-Truth Era?

Reason Staff | 2.1.2013 4:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Did Crappy Expert Testimony Condemn an Innocent Woman to Prison for Murder?

Jacob Sullum | 9.28.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Are We Standing on the Edge of the Climate Change "Abyss"?

Reason's science correspondent sends a third dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban.

Ronald Bailey | 12.7.2011 10:30 AM

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