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The Case of the AI-Generated Giant Rat Penis

Science Ronald Bailey | From the June 2024 issue An illustration featuring a rat with a cross section of a giant...

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AI Regulators Are More Likely To Run Amok Than Is AI

Artificial Intelligence Ronald Bailey | 5.3.2024 4:45 PM Deploying the precautionary principle is a laser-focused...

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FDA Once Again Stands Athwart Biomedical Innovation, Yelling 'Stop!'

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Review: Here There Are Blueberries Investigates a Nazi Photo Album

Theater Ronald Bailey | From the May 2024 issue A mysterious album filled with photos of smiling happy Nazis...

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NOAA Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Are Not Evidence of Climate Change

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 4.25.2024 2:10 PM "Billion-dollar weather and climate disasters broke U.S. record in...

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Greenpeace Crusade Will Blind and Kill Children

Greenpeace Ronald Bailey | 4.25.2024 12:30 PM Greenpeace and other anti-biotech activist groups have logged a win in...

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Progress, Rediscovered

Innovation Ronald Bailey | From the May 2024 issue "The tragedy of today is that we are the heirs and the...

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First Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Goes Home

Organ transplants Ronald Bailey | 4.4.2024 2:19 PM Two weeks ago, surgeons from Massachusetts General Hospital for...

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Harvard Global Cooling Geoengineering Experiment Halted

Geoengineering Ronald Bailey | 4.1.2024 1:05 PM Last year was the hottest year in the global instrumental...

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FDA Aims To Stifle Medical Innovation Again

FDA Ronald Bailey | From the April 2024 issue The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that massively screwed up...

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Enhanced Games Head Rebuts Biden: Performance Enhancements in Sports Are 'Inevitable'

Human Enhancement Ronald Bailey | 3.22.2024 4:40 PM Earlier this month, the Biden White House issued a statement...

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Abortion Pill Studies Retracted: Politics or Science?

Abortion Ronald Bailey | 3.13.2024 4:10 PM Our secular society has replaced the old arbiters of truth, priests and...

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CDC Vastly Overestimated U.S. Maternal Death Rates, Says New Study

CDC Ronald Bailey | 3.13.2024 4:51 PM "U.S. maternal deaths keep rising," reported NPR last year. PBS similarly...

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Parents, Not the Government, Should Make IVF Decisions

Reproductive Freedom Ronald Bailey | 2.28.2024 4:10 PM The sorry history of anti-miscegenation and forced...

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No Progress on Global Emissions 8 Years After Paris Climate Agreement

Environmentalism Ronald Bailey | From the March 2024 issue Eight years after the Paris climate agreement, where do...

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What if Men Could Produce Their Own Eggs?

Science Ronald Bailey | From the February 2024 issue Japanese researchers announced last year that healthy fertile...

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Is Facial Recognition a Useful Public Safety Tool or Something Sinister?

Surveillance Ronald Bailey | From the February 2024 issue Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest To...

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DeSantis Repeats Lie That Booster Shots Make You More Likely To Get COVID

Vaccines Ronald Bailey | 1.18.2024 3:45 PM Flailing GOP presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis will apparently...

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It's Official: 2023 Was the Hottest Year on Record

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 1.9.2024 3:35 PM The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reports...

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Guns, Germs, and Drugs Are Largely Responsible for the Decline in U.S. Life Expectancy

Public Health Ronald Bailey | 1.8.2024 5:30 PM "America has a life expectancy crisis," asserted a recent headline in...

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The Best of Reason: Meet Florida's Python Bounty Hunters

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No Fossil Fuel Phase-Out in COP28 Climate Deal

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 12.13.2023 9:45 AM Dubai, United Arab Emirates — "We have language on fossil fuel...

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There Is No 1.5°C Climate Cliff

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 12.12.2023 12:50 PM Dubai, United Arab Emirates—"The North Star of the COP28...

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Promoting Free Market Solutions to Climate Change at COP28

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COP28: No 'Phase Out' of Fossil Fuels After All

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 12.11.2023 12:03 PM Dubai, United Arab Emirates—Earlier today at COP28, the United...

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Is COP28 the 'Nuclear COP'?

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 12.11.2023 10:05 AM Dubai, United Arab Emirates—"It's been a very good COP for...

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Meet Florida's Python Bounty Hunters

Animals Ronald Bailey | From the January 2024 issue Python Cowboy Mike Kimmel and Python Huntress Amy Siewe are...

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Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Frenzy at COP28

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 12.8.2023 3:05 PM Dubai, United Arab Emirates—"A fast, fair, fully funded, and...

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U.N. Climate Change Conference Opens During Hottest Year on Record

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 11.30.2023 6:00 PM The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued its latest...

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U.N.'s 28th Climate Change Conference Opens Next Week in Dubai

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 11.27.2023 9:00 AM The United Nations' 28th climate change conference will open on...

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New U.S.-China Climate Deal: Same as the Old Deals

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 11.16.2023 3:35 PM For years U.S.-China climate negotiations have been much like the...

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New Mosquitos Can Help Beat Malaria

Science Ronald Bailey | From the December 2023 issue For the first time in 20 years, nine cases of locally acquired...

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The Last 12 Months Have Been the Hottest on Record

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 11.10.2023 5:15 PM Earth just recorded its hottest 12-month streak (from November 2022...

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Did Chuck Schumer Just Come Out Against Top-Down AI Licensing?

Artificial Intelligence Ronald Bailey | 11.10.2023 12:05 PM President Joe Biden issued a sweeping executive order last...

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Biden Issues 'A.I. Red Tape Wishlist'

Artificial Intelligence Ronald Bailey | 10.31.2023 5:02 PM President Joe Biden issued yesterday a sweeping executive...

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The Best of Reason: Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?

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Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?

Evolution Ronald Bailey | From the November 2023 issue Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will, by Kevin J....

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The Best of Reason: Take Nutrition Studies With a Grain of Salt

Junk science Ronald Bailey | 10.17.2023 5:30 PM This week's featured article is "Take Nutrition Studies With a Grain of...

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How Seed Oils Were Demonized

Health Ronald Bailey | 10.14.2023 7:00 AM The controversy over polyunsaturated seed oils is in some respects the mirror...

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Take Nutrition Studies With a Grain of Salt

Academia Ronald Bailey | From the November 2023 issue Comb through enough nutrition research, and you can find a study...

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This Might Be the Hottest Year You've Ever Experienced

Climate Change Ronald Bailey | 10.6.2023 4:11 PM Globally, the hottest June, July, August, and now September since...

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Chris Christie for Robots and Tech Progress

Debates Ronald Bailey | 9.27.2023 11:26 PM Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had a good pro-progress answer at...

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