What a Suicidal Pilot Can Teach Us About Trying to Predict All Risk
Watch out when folks play the "safety card." Consider what we might lose in its pursuit.
Safety
Who Will Be Screwed Over by the FAA's New Drone Rules?
The precautionary principle strikes again.
'Drugged' Drivers Who Aren't
One reason a link between marijuana and car crashes is hard to verify
If Marijuana Causes Lots of Crashes, Why Are They So Hard to Count?
A major study finds no link between pot and car accidents.
Landmark Study Finds Marijuana Is Not Linked to Car Crashes
USA Today nevertheless perceives a "new driving threat from dopers."
HPV Vaccination Does Not Increase Promiscuity Among Adolescents
It's a vaccine against sexually transmitted cancer
Vaccines and Autism: Rand Paul Please Say It Ain't So!
Let's hope that the senator misspoke and will soon clarify his remarks
Colorado's Mysterious Marijuana DUID Numbers
With one year of data, it's hard to perceive a trend.
BPA Safe: Yet Another Scientifically Unfounded Environmentalist Scare Bites the Dust
European Food Safety Authority finds "no consumer health risk from bisphenol-A exposure."
Contra the Media, We're Safer Now Than Ever Before
We wax nostalgic about the past, but the past was much nastier than today.
Stoned Drivers: The Case Against Panic
Pot prohibitionists undermine their own warnings about legalization and car crashes.
Applied Philosophy: Who Do We Program This Car To Hit?
The ethics of autonomous vehicles.
Friday A/V Club: The Legend of Action Park
It was the '80s. It was New Jersey. It was another place and time.
Can Cannabis Cut Car Crashes?
If more pot smoking means less drinking, legalization could make the roads safer.
The General Motors Scandal May Be Worse Than You Think
Does anyone believe the Obama administration took as hard a look at GM as it did Toyota?
Today's Child Injury Panic: Shopping Carts
Study finds 66 kids treated every day due to cart-related injuries
Jet Blue Temporarily Scaling Back Operations in Boston, New York
Needs to recover from the weather-related nightmares
Tragic But Avoidable Christmas Deaths Don't Result in New Safety Regulations
When people choose to ignore warnings, it's not the state's responsibility
Program Causes Sharks to Tweet Their Locations
In order to let surfers and swimmers in Australia know they're near beaches
