The FDA's Menthol Cigarette Ban Is a 'Racial Justice' Issue, but Not in the Way Its Supporters Mean
The proposed rule, which targets the cigarettes that black smokers overwhelmingly prefer, will harm the community it is supposed to help.
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FDA Case for Menthol Ban Undermined by New Study
Menthols aren’t harder to quit than other cigarettes.
Facing Fauci's Fury: Q&A with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
The Stanford professor and Great Barrington Declaration coauthor stands up to COVID-19 autocrats and disastrous lockdowns by following the science.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: How To Avoid 'Absolutely Catastrophic' COVID Mistakes
The anti-lockdown Stanford public health professor on being attacked by Fauci, the loss of trust in medical experts, and how to save science going forward.
New Investigation Finds FDA's Food Side Is 'Broken'
Among experts on food safety, the consensus is that the FDA's food division isn't functional.
The FDA's Rejection of a Major Vaping Brand Shows It Is Arbitrarily Applying a Nebulous Legal Standard
The agency's obsession with adolescent vaping is driving decisions that undermine public health.
Under Oregon's Proposed Rules, Legal Psilocybin Will Be All-Natural, Organic, and GMO-Free
The state's regulators plan to start accepting applications from manufacturers and "service centers" on January 2.
Time for an Operation Warp Speed to Develop Pan-Coronavirus Vaccines
Meanwhile the FDA dawdles over second boosters as new COVID-19 wave approaches
Who Will Be the First Person To Go to Prison for Selling Flavored Tobacco or E-Cigarettes?
It’s likely to happen any day now.
Enforcing Abortion Bans Is Much Harder Than Passing Them
The experience in Texas shows that workarounds pose daunting obstacles to such laws.
Congress Seems Poised To Let the FDA Ban E-Cigarettes Containing Synthetic Nicotine
A spending bill provision would redefine "tobacco products" to include products that have nothing to do with tobacco.
Can the FDA's New Commissioner Save the Agency From Itself?
Robert Califf must demand transparency and accountability from the bureaucrats.
The Government's Coronavirus Response Was a Complete Failure. Who Will Be Held Accountable?
From the CDC to the FDA, there are too many missteps to list.
Psychedelic Drugs Win Growing Respect
Not only won’t they blow your mind, but they may even save it (sometimes legally).
Health Insurers Forced To Cover Rapid COVID-19 Tests Even Though They Don't Know How
While the rule is set to go into effect this weekend, companies are scrambling to figure out how to cover or reimburse people for the tests.
The FDA Finally Liberates French Dressing from 72-Year-Old Ingredient Mandates
Why? A better question was why they were ever involved in the first place.
Genetically Modified Pig Heart Successfully Transplanted Into a Patient
One step closer to solving the organ shortage crisis?
Biden's Plan To Make At-Home COVID-19 Tests More Expensive and Harder To Find
Plus: Waiting lists for public defenders, inflation boogeymen, and more...
Mandatory GMO Disclosure Doesn't Sway Shopping Habits (But Will Drive Up Costs)
Plus: Questioning paranoia about smartphones and attention spans, new small business creation is thriving, and more...
FDA Finally Gets Around to Approving Pfizer's Anti-COVID Pill
It's another case of bureaucratic incompetence as the omicron wave surges.
Biden's Plan To Fight Omicron With Mass Testing Is Laughable Given the FDA's Approval Failures
Plus: Criminals have stolen $100 billion in pandemic relief funds, and colleges are planning to go virtual once again.
Mail-Order Abortion Pills, Now Officially Authorized by the FDA, Pose an Insoluble Problem for Legislators Who Want To Ban the Procedure
Federal regulators have permanently lifted a requirement that mifepristone be dispensed in person.
The FDA Still Hasn't Approved 2 New Drugs That Could Help End the Pandemic
Bureaucratic foot-dragging is costing lives.
The FDA Should Immediately Approve Pfizer's Anti-COVID-19 Pill Paxlovid
The omicron COVID-19 variant is likely to sweep through the country in the next month or so.
Supreme Court Denies Breeze Smoke Stay Application
The justices show little interest in vaping regulation on the shadow docket, but may yet review the FDA's behavior in the regular course.
Booster Shots Appear To Offer Protection Against Omicron COVID-19 Variant
Pfizer/BioNTech reports that a third shot significantly neutralizes the emerging variant.
Jen Psaki's Snarky Comments Can't Cover for the FDA's Rapid Testing Approval Failures
Plus: RIP to sex entrepreneur Phil Harvey, Elon Musk says Congress should can Biden's spending plan, and more....
Vaping Regulation Threatens a Lifesaving Smoking Alternative
Policy makers are acting as if saving the lives of smokers via harm-reducing alternatives counts for nothing.
Support Reason for More Coverage of Gubmint's (Turrible) COVID-19 Policies!
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.
FDA's At-Home Testing Screw-Up Is Undermining Promising New COVID Treatments
The same agency that stymied COVID-19 testing is now dawdling over approving new antiviral pills.
Justice Kavanaugh Asks FDA to Respond to Breeze Smoke Emergency Stay Application
Vaping regulation gets some attention on the Shadow Docket
FDA Plans Fast Approvals of Updated COVID-19 Variant Vaccines
Vaccine makers are already targeting the omicron variant.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Lauded the Success of China's 'Really Strict' Lockdowns
Instead of pining for authoritarian control, maybe U.S. health officials could tell the FDA to stop standing in the way of progress.
Vaping in the Shadow Docket
An electronic cigarette manufacturer seeks a stay of FDA action from the Supreme Court.
FDA Finally Recommends COVID-19 Booster Shots for All Adults
After months of inconsistent messaging and a chaotic track record, will anybody trust it?
Divided Sixth Circuit Refuses to Stay FDA's Denial of Vaping Product Application
In rejecting Breeze Smoke's application for a stay of the FDA's rejection of their product applications, the Sixth Circuit disagrees with the Fifth Circuit.
Nicholas Christakis: How To End the Covid Pandemic
Misinformation and bad policy can only be defeated by robust, open debate in the public square.
The FDA Warns That Hand Sanitizer 'Can Cause Serious Injury' If You Put It in Your Eyes
"These are the same people who could not approve an at-home COVID-19 test for a year."
If Less Vaping Means More Smoking, That Won't Be a Public Health Victory
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.
Fifth Circuit Rebukes FDA for Regulatory "Switcheroo" in Denying Vaping Product Applications
Yesterday's decision eviscerated the Food and Drug Administration for its arbitrary and capricious handling of vaping product applications
There Would Be a Lot More Good News if Government Would Get Out of the Way
"The quality of life we have even during COVID is so much higher than anything humanity experienced, and it's only going to get better."
More Confusion Over Boosters as FDA Panel Recommends Additional Moderna Shots
Plus: Most Americans favor smaller government as the pandemic fades, consumer spending grows despite supply chain issues, and more...
Keeping Warm This Winter Could Be More Costly As Inflation Heats Up
Plus: Psychedelic entrepreneurs, American seafood stuck in Canada, and more...
The FDA Wants To Take Your Salt Away
Most Americans are not consuming excessive amounts of sodium.
FDA Approves an E-Cigarette for the First Time but Still Seems Bent on Banning the Flavors Former Smokers Overwhelmingly Prefer
If teenagers like an e-liquid flavor, the agency seems to think, adults should not be allowed to buy it.
Congress Raised the Debt Ceiling Again Without Doing Anything To Fix the $28 Trillion National Debt
Plus: Why "reforming" Section 230 makes little sense, the FDA finally admits vaping is safer than smoking, the U.S. will reopen its land borders with Canada and Mexico, and more...
