Federal Science Funding Won't Accomplish Anything the Private Sector Can't Do Better
A bipartisan bill aimed to help the U.S. “compete” with China would only slow down scientific progress.
Science Policy
Study Finds Almost 40 Percent of People in Eight European Nations Would Like to Live "in a World Where Chemical Substances Don't Exist"
Such scientific ignorance is common in th US as well, and can have a harmful influence on government policy.
Environmental Protection Agency
Is Trump's EPA Seeking To Gut Good Science?
Congress wants to know if the agency is strengthening transparency or silencing science.
The Apollo Missions Were Cool, But Private Enterprise Has Been Better for Innovation
People are happier, healthier, and wealthier because freer markets have opened the floodgates of innovation, research, and development.
Survey Shows Most Extreme Opponents of GMO Foods Know the Least—Yet Think They Know the Most
The result is consistent with lots of other evidence of widespread ignorance and bias influencing public opinion on political and scientific issues.
How Open-Access Journals Are Transforming Science
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn't exist," says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
Environmental Protection Agency
If Industry-Funded Scientists Can Be Conflicted, Surely Government-Funded Scientists Can Be Too
Scott Pruitt blocks EPA-funded researchers from serving on the agency's advisory boards.
The Administrative State Strikes Back: Federal Climate Change Draft Report Leaked
It would be ridiculous for the Trump Administration to try to suppress it now.
Scientists' March on Washington
Do researchers risk becoming just another leftwing interest group?
Climate Scientists Manipulated Temperature Data to Fool Politicians and Public, Claims 'Whistleblower'
Another update on the 'settled science' of climate change
EPA's New Fracking Report and Regulatory Science
The new report appears to be a parting gift to anti-fracking activists from the Obama administration.
The Successful Progressive Conspiracy to Burn a 'Climate Heretic'
Wikileaks reveals how activists orchestrated a campaign to silence climate researcher Roger Pielke Jr.
Rep. Massie Hasn't Heard From Trump Transition About Any Possible Administration Role
Massie hasn't met with anyone from the Trump transition team.
Gary Johnson Answers 20 Questions on Science Policy
Compare his answers with Clinton, Trump, and Stein over at ScienceDebate.org
Most Scientific Findings Are Wrong or Useless
"Science isn't self-correcting, it's self-destructing."
Most Research Results Are Wrong or Useless: New at Reason
"Science, the pride of modernity, our one source of objective knowledge, is in deep trouble."
Democratic Platform 2016: Science Planks Good, Bad and Missing
Are the Democrats really the Party of Science?
How the FAA Killed Supersonic Flight—And How It Can Revive It
If not for Federal Aviation Administration meddling in supersonic flight innovation, we could zip around the world in a fraction of the time.
Republican Platform: Some Science Policy Proposals to Cheer About
No mandatory GMO labels, no energy subsidies, open Yucca Mountain, encourage thorium reactors, etc.
Climate Change Prediction Fail?
What did 'climate hero' James Hansen actually predict back in 1986?
Gary Johnson On Science Policy
Libertarian Party presidential candidate scores pretty well.
Gary Johnson on Science Policy: New at Reason
Climate change, GMOs, Yucca Mountain, vaccination, fetal pain, evolution, and Ebola
CRISPR Critters: Regulators and the New Gene Revolution in Agriculture
More, better, and safer food - but only if regulators will stay out of the way.
Donald Trump on Science
Comparing his scores on seven science policy topics to Cruz, Rubio, and Bush
Responsible Research and Innovation: A Concept Worse than the Precautionary Principle
A debate over biotechnology previews the regulatory innovation that could stop innovation
Obama Falls 600,000 Electric Cars Short, Science Advances by Funerals, and Record Wildfires?
A scitech research and policy round up for January 7, 2016
Venezuela Bans GMOs, Utopia via the Borg Collective, and Cancer: Bad Luck or Environment?
A scitech research and policy roundup for January 6, 2016
Biomedical Study Reproducibility Scandalously Bad, Evidence for "Free Will," and Robot Rebellion by 2055
A scitech research and policy round up for January 5, 2016
Bioethics: Standing Athwart Science, Yelling 'Whoa'*
I'm a bioethicist, and I am here to help slow down scientific and medical progress
FDA Takes One Regulatory Shackle Off 23andMe Gene Testing
Agency still treats consumers like idiots
Hillary's Solar Scheme Is Central Planning at its Worst
Why privilege solar over all the other technologies, including some that may not even be invented yet?
Most Preclinical Life Science Research Is Irreproducible Bunk
$28 billion in research funding wasted every year.
Ronald Bailey Hangs Out WIth the Bioethicists at the BEINGS 2015 Summit
Is life better than death; health better disease; wealth better than poverty? Opinions vary.
Senate Committee Votes In Favor of EPA Secret Science Reform Act
Environmental activists favor secret science
FDA Regulators Ease Just a Tiny Bit Their Stranglehold on Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
Testing company 23andMe expresses its gratitude
Really Depressing Survey of What Scientists and the Public Think About Science and Society
Disinformation specialists are everywhere
The Paris Climate Negotiations Next Year Will Be a Fiasco
Why there will not be a global climate change treaty in 2015
Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?
In a thoughtful new book, a philosopher ponders the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence.