AI Regulators Are More Likely To Run Amok Than Is AI
Proposed AI legislation would enshrine tech-killing precautionary principle into law.
Precautionary Principle
Evil Greenpeace Objects to Philippines' Approval of Genetically Improved Golden Rice
Nobel laureates properly call activist group's campaign against crop biotechnology a "crime against humanity."
No, Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Will Not Turn the Florida Keys Into Jurassic Park
The goal is to drastically reduce the population of disease-carrying bloodsuckers.
The FDA's 'Safety Pause' Predictably Lowered Americans' Confidence in Safety of J&J COVID-19 Vaccine
Who could possibly have known that that would happen?
How the Government Timidly Stood in the Way of COVID-Fighting Innovations
Without the feds in the way, we could have rolled out at-home diagnostic testing, set up human challenge trials, approved vaccines sooner, and vaccinated Americans more quickly.
Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine's Benefits Far Outweigh Risks, Say E.U. Regulators
The precautionary principle kills again.
Pausing AstraZeneca COVID-19 Shots Is a Bad Risk/Benefit Call
"The benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine...outweigh the risks of side effects."
Proposed U.N. Test Ban on Gene Drives Is Idiotic
The good news is that anti-technology activists are unlikely to succeed in imposing a global moratorium.
Artificial Intelligence Will Be More Economically Consequential than Steam Power Was
AI could boost economic growth by 1.2 percent annually between now and 2030.
Self-Driving Cars Will Make Most Auto Safety Regulations Unnecessary
Simplifying the rules could save lives on the highway.
The Fatal Flaw in the Fights Against Global Warming and Global Terrorism
Beware the precautionary tales of the left and the right.
Rachel Carson: New Documentary on PBS Tonight
We are all still living in the intellectual and public policy world that Rachel Carson constructed.
Time Magazine Promotes Superstitious Chemophobia
Toxicologists liken the endocrine disruption hypothesis to homeopathy.
Coffee Not a Possible Human Carcinogen After All
Absurdly precautionary International Agency for Research on Cancer admits it was wrong
CORRECTION: Gene Drives, the Precautionary Principle, and the National Academy of Sciences
Go slow and let more people suffer and die
Glyphosate Not a Cancer Risk, Concludes FAO and WHO Expert Panel
Roundup "unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans"
Want a Zika-Free Caribbean Vacation? Grand Cayman Chooses GMO Mosquitoes
Meanwhile FDA bows to anti-biotech activist fears and won't expedite approval of proven technology
Banning GMOs Would Hurt Nature
Farmers would have to plow down an area roughly equal to Connecticut.
Responsible Research and Innovation: A Concept Worse than the Precautionary Principle
A debate over biotechnology previews the regulatory innovation that could stop innovation
Rich, White and Stupidly Anti-Vaccine in California
New Years Resolution: Stop putting your kids and other people at risk
Malthusians v. Cornucopians, a more critical review of The End of Doom
Bailey responds to the criticism below
Against the Dogmatists, a Review of The End of Doom
Modest self-promotion of my new book
The Measles Outbreak and the Precautionary Principle
How U.S. public health authorities helped fuel the anti-vaccine movement
The Voluntarily Unvaccinated Are Harming Other People in California Measles Outbreak
Anti-vaxxers it's past time for you to get over your superstition and get your kids vaccinated.
Techno-Panic Self-Parody Alert
A member of the "Fox News Medical A-Team" attacks Facebook and video games.
Are Republicans or Democrats More Anti-Science?
Comparing the scientific ignorance of our mainstream parties
