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Senate's AI Roadmap Released
It could have been a lot worse.
Ronald Bailey | 5.15.2024 4:30 PM
E.U. Regulators Can't Detect the Gene-Edited Crops They Banned
The difference between two identical genes—one edited and the other a natural mutation—is entirely metaphysical.
Ronald Bailey | 7.23.2019 3:40 PM
Google Launches a Drone Delivery Service in Australia
Get food, coffee, medicine, and golf balls (if your aim is just that bad).
Scott Shackford | 4.11.2019 1:30 PM
First Gene-Edited Crop Coming to a Store Near You
Great news for consumers and farmers.
Ronald Bailey | 3.19.2019 10:45 AM
New Research Suggests Solar Geoengineering Could Safely Lower Global Temperatures
We should stop hemming and hawing and try building an emergency backup cooling system for the planet
Ronald Bailey | 3.15.2019 4:45 PM
Life-Saving Golden Rice Finally Gets to Poor Farmers Despite Environmentalist Opposition
Bangladesh announces that it will allow its farmers to plant this genetically improved crop
Ronald Bailey | 3.7.2019 5:55 PM
Rand Paul Fails Parents and Kids of Every Political Persuasion by Offering Weak Support for Vaccines
Paul says benefits outweigh risks, but he unfortunately didn't leave it at that.
Ronald Bailey | 3.6.2019 4:45 PM
Making Malaria Mosquitoes Extinct Using Engineered Gene-Drives
"If my kids lived in Africa, I'd say, 'Go for it as quickly as possible,'" says researcher.
Ronald Bailey | 2.20.2019 12:35 PM
Anti-Vaxxers Responsible for Yet Another Outbreak of Measles
Robert Kennedy Jr. raves that vaccinations cause "ADD, ADHD, speech delay, autism, food allergy, autoimmune diseases."
Ronald Bailey | 2.13.2019 3:35 PM
'Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most'
Title of the Nature Human Behavior article cited above sadly says it all.
Ronald Bailey | 1.15.2019 12:10 PM
Despite Climate Change, There Will Be Enough Food for 10 Billion in 2050
Food security is not the problem, but nutrition security could be.
Ronald Bailey | 1.3.2019 2:50 PM
There's Not Much Truth Found in HBO's Lazy Robot Panic Documentary
If Skynet looms on the horizon, you won't find the evidence here.
Glenn Garvin | 11.23.2018 3:00 PM
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.
Ronald Bailey | 11.15.2018 10:35 AM
The $289 Million Verdict Against Monsanto Is Scientifically Outrageous
California jurors misled by activist misinformation
Ronald Bailey | 8.14.2018 4:00 PM
Idiots on the European Court of Justice Rule Modern Gene-Edited Crops Must Be Overregulated
"A backward step, not progress"
Ronald Bailey | 7.25.2018 4:45 PM
Victor Frankenstein Is the Real Monster
Mary Shelley's misunderstood masterpiece turns 200.
Ronald Bailey | 3.4.2018 6:00 AM
GMO Opponents Are Immoral, Argues Purdue University President Mitch Daniels
It's past time to tell your anti-GMO friends, family and neighbors they are helping to kill poor people.
Ronald Bailey | 12.28.2017 1:35 PM
European Union Approves Weedkiller
Anti-GMO scaremongering fails to stop glyphosate.
Ronald Bailey | 11.28.2017 3:31 PM
GMO Virus Could Save Florida's Orange Groves
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will reportedly approve a GMO virus to fight citrus greening disease.
Ronald Bailey | 11.22.2017 3:00 PM
Merchants of Environmentalist Doubt*
Contrary to activist claims, the popular herbicide glyphosate does not cause cancer in people, says a new study.
Ronald Bailey | 11.15.2017 2:30 PM
The Deceptive Art of Confirmation-Biased 'Science': Condemning Glyphosate
With a little conflict of interest thrown in
Ronald Bailey | 10.31.2017 10:35 AM
Save the Robots from the Humans!
We could be on the verge of an all-out war on artificial intelligence technologies.
Andrea O'Sullivan | 8.29.2017 8:30 AM
Canadians Can Eat Genetically Enhanced Salmon; Americans Can't
Because Congress requires the FDA to come up with a "frankenfish" labeling scheme
Ronald Bailey | 8.16.2017 10:25 AM
Crazy Pet Anti-Vaxxers Provoke My Canine Lyme Disease Vaccine Envy
Lyme disease vaccine has been available for dogs since the 1990s; humans may get it next year.
Ronald Bailey | 8.4.2017 1:30 PM
Chelsea Clinton's Lead Trial Balloon
Journalists try desperately to kick-start a political career that has no good reason to exist
Matt Welch | 4.4.2017 2:52 PM
Trump Selects Anti-Vaccination Kook Robert Kennedy Jr. to Head Vaccination Safety Commission—Update: Not So Fast?
Kennedy once compared vaccination to the Holocaust*
Ronald Bailey | 1.10.2017 6:04 PM
Climate Intervention Finally Discussed in Latest National Global Change Research Plan Update
Way past time to experiment with geoengineering as an emergency backup plan to cool the planet
Ronald Bailey | 1.10.2017 12:30 PM
An Epidemic of Bad Epidemiology: New at Reason
Getting Risk Right reviewed by Ronald Bailey
Ronald Bailey | 12.23.2016 1:30 PM
Liberals Don't Really F**king Love Science
John Tierney on the Left's real war on science
Ronald Bailey | 11.21.2016 3:25 PM
No Innovation Without Regulation: 'Safety Experts' Alarmed by Uber's Self-Driving Cars in Pittsburgh
What is not permitted is prohibited
Ronald Bailey | 9.12.2016 3:30 PM
The Nuclear War Over Climate Change
If global warming is a problem, it is idiotic for environmentalists to oppose nuclear power.
Ronald Bailey | 8.5.2016 1:30 PM
FDA Finally Approves 'Friendly' GMO Mosquitoes
Just as Zika virus breaks out in Florida - coincidence?
Ronald Bailey | 8.5.2016 12:15 PM
Vermont GMO Labeling Hits Kosher Foods
The intended consequences of needlessly scaring consumers are bad enough, but now this too.
Ronald Bailey | 7.11.2016 2:12 PM
American Pessimism: Only 6 Percent Think the World Is Getting Better
Over the past century, the prospects and circumstances of most of humanity have spectacularly improved
Ronald Bailey | 7.7.2016 10:13 AM
Senate Passes GMO Labeling Bill: Activists Are Apoplectic!
Preempts labeling requirements in Vermont and other states
Ronald Bailey | 7.6.2016 5:45 PM
100 Nobel Laureates Demand that Greenpeace Stops Killing Poor Children
The scientists denounce Greenpeace's opposition to modern crop biotechnology as a "crime against humanity"
Ronald Bailey | 6.29.2016 1:08 PM
CORRECTION: Gene Drives, the Precautionary Principle, and the National Academy of Sciences
Go slow and let more people suffer and die
Ronald Bailey | 6.9.2016 1:20 PM
Break Up Big Seed!
Don't regulate modern safe crops created using CRISPR gene-editing.
Ronald Bailey | 5.27.2016 1:30 PM
Ronald Bailey Argues for Transhumanism at the Washington Post
My fellow Americans should not get to vote on what enhancements I might want
Ronald Bailey | 5.20.2016 12:50 PM
Biotech Crop Safety Scientific Consensus Confirmed by National Academy of Sciences
"No substantiated evidence of a difference in risks to human health between current commercially available genetically engineered (GE) crops and conventionally bred crops"
Ronald Bailey | 5.17.2016 4:10 PM
Glyphosate Not a Cancer Risk, Concludes FAO and WHO Expert Panel
Roundup "unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans"
Ronald Bailey | 5.16.2016 1:50 PM
Is It Ethical to Synthesize an Entire Human Genome? Yes!
Genomes are not "sacred" entities needing some kind of special moral consideration.
Ronald Bailey | 5.13.2016 11:02 AM
Without Herbicides, Food Itself Would Be Impossible*
Or at least about half of corn and soybeans would be impossible
Ronald Bailey | 5.6.2016 3:01 PM
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
Ronald Bailey | 5.6.2016 10:35 AM
Totally Bogus Attack on Glyphosate in Quaker Oats
Anti-GMO activist scaremongering against herbicide glyphosate almost makes Donald Trump look honest
Ronald Bailey | 5.3.2016 1:45 PM
Glyphosate Found in Some Cereals: Alarmists Generate Useless Panic
Another bogus scaremongering study by anti-technology activists
Ronald Bailey | 4.19.2016 6:03 PM
Zika Coming to America: Use GMO Mosquitoes to Fight It!
Blame any zika-caused microencephaly on Friends of the Earth, the Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, and GMO Free USA
Ronald Bailey | 4.8.2016 1:01 PM
Really Stupid Moms Across America Scaremongering About Glyphosate in Wines
Moms: Get a clue-organic wines are carcinogens.
Ronald Bailey | 3.24.2016 2:46 PM