Unfortunately, the director of Health and Human Services leads a movement prone to untrue beliefs on medical matters from cell phones to vaccines, pesticides, and genetically modified crops.
So let's all enjoy a moderate toast to a Happy New Year!
Why aren't politicians on both sides more worried than they seem to be?
Medical professionals are often unaware of the relevant research on the relative risks of tobacco products, and that can matter for public health.
Many who see overdraft protection as preferable to other short-term credit options will have fewer choices as some banks decide the service isn't worth offering anymore.
Government is "promoting bad behavior," says Sen. Rand Paul. He's right.
Years ago, when interest rates were low, calls for the federal government to exercise fiscal restraint were dismissed. That was unwise.
The best reforms would correct the real problems of overcriminalization and overincarceration, as well as removing all artificial barriers to building more homes.
But don't expect taxpayers to rescue adventurers when they fail, either.
California homeowners are finding out that government-imposed market distortions cannot be maintained forever.
Delayed payments will increase, and companies will respond by raising interest rates—or denying low-income applicants outright.
For good and ill, human beings advance through trial and error. The same will be the case with A.I.
The risk of broad and overcautious policies is one we should take more seriously.
New U.N. report says we are about to "miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all."
Even on campuses where the student body is 99 percent vaccinated, college administrators are bending to COVID-19 hysteria.
The unvaccinated are 5 times more likely to be hospitalized when infected.
Young males infected with COVID-19 are six times more likely to develop myocarditis than those who have been vaccinated.
The risk of dying from extreme weather since the 1920s has dropped by 99.75 percent.
The agency's disease advice is seen as increasingly irrelevant by more Americans.
The state's insurance commissioner forbids the canceling of policies for homes in risky areas.
Did Cook County overdo it and let too many dangerous defendants free?
It's simple: You should not build your house in places where you can't get private flood insurance.
Halloween combines the two things we fear most in America today—kids actually leaving the house, and food other than hummus and baby carrots being fed to them.
Allison Schrager's An Economist Walks Into a Brothel demystifies sex work, big-wave surfing, horse-breeding, and other high-risk professions.
Allison Schrager wants to change the way you take chances.
New study explains why I can't convince people that terrorism is not worth worrying much about.
No curtain calls for any security theater performances.
Fearmongering responses at the idea that the feds don't need to run everything
Americans have a poor sense of risk, and media panics don't help.
In the past five years, how many U.S. terrorist attacks were committed by jihadists?
You have nothing to lose but your guilt! Your children won't be die because you leave them alone for a chunk of the day. Though you may be arrested, true.
It's democratic, so what could possibly be wrong with that?
"Je suis en terrasse!" as the Parisians say.
New Years Resolution: Stop putting your kids and other people at risk
Is that a good use of New York state taxpayer dollars?
Meanwhile PETA offers you a free vegan starter kit and a vegan mentor
Stay calm, carry on, and above all, defend the Constitution.
The value of life is determined not by the mere drawing of one breath after another, but by the freedom to make our own decisions.
Ronald Bailey responds to Dr. Jeffrey Singer's "Vaccination and Free Choice"
Vaccination is a wise idea, but in a free society, we must tolerate bad choices.
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