Dan Carlin on Podcasting, History, and Hero Worship
"The past is there to teach us what can happen," the Hardcore History podcaster tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
"The past is there to teach us what can happen," the Hardcore History podcaster tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
The Harm Reduction Gap argues for individual autonomy and meeting drug users where they're at.
The majority and the dissenters agree that the drug was "central" to "the opioid crisis," even though there is little evidence to support that thesis.
In between insanities, the erratic Republican was considerably more right about COVID-19 policy in September 2020 than the smug Democrat or the scoldy journalist.
The candidate who grasps the gravity of this situation and proposes concrete steps to address it will demonstrate the leadership our nation now desperately needs. The stakes couldn't be higher.
The verdict in Murthy v. Missouri is a big, flashing green light that jawboning may resume.
The candidate makes the case against the two-party system.
A widely cited study commits so many egregious statistical errors that it's a poster child for junk science.
"It’s not like public health is infallible," the Stanford professor and Great Barrington Declaration author tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
Plus: A listener asks if there are any libertarian solutions to rising obesity rates.
The agency's inscrutable approach to harm-reducing nicotine products sacrifices consumer choice and public health on the altar of youth protection.
Two years after the Dobbs decision, Americans are increasingly concerned with how abortion bans affect women with wanted pregnancies.
Just the latest development in the continuing saga of COVID stimulus fraud.
A proposed USDA rule would require RFID tagging of all cattle and bison that move across state lines.
Upcoming legislation would repeal parts of the 1873 law that could be used to target abortion, but the Comstock Act's reach is much more broad than that.
No, but a Stanford psychologist says people under age 21 should be banned from buying some nonalcoholic drinks to protect kids from "drinking culture."
Thanks to clever inventions and investments from venture capitalists, the average American can head to CVS and purchase kits to test for drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDs, diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol.
As the DEA relentlessly tightens regulations on pain meds, the FDA refuses to approve a safer alternative already being used in similar countries.
The Biden administration says its new guidance will make pandemic research safer. Critics say it suffers the same flaws as past, failed gain-of-function regulations.
A covert U.S. military social media campaign was an exercise in profound hypocrisy.
The co-founder of Whole Foods discusses his new memoir, The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism as he launches his new holistic health venture, Love.Life.
We could grow our way out of our debt burden if politicians would limit spending increases to just below America's average yearly economic growth. But they won't even do that.
The obstacles to having more babies can't be moved by tax incentives or subsidized child care.
Sen. Rand Paul explains why FOIA litigation shouldn’t have been necessary to find this out.
An early article from what will eventually be several on Information as Medicine.
Issuing a posthumous pardon for Bennett would reaffirm our nation’s commitment to free expression and intellectual freedom.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about the Selective Service.
Washington keeps getting caught pushing the kind of disinformation it claims to oppose.
Plus: Ex-NSA chief joins forces with OpenAI, conscription squads hunt Ukrainian draft-dodgers, and more...
But will the government ever face repercussions for its role in the Adderall shortage?
The obstacles to having more babies can't be moved by tax incentives or subsidized child care.
Evolutionary psychologist Diana Fleischman discusses IVF, artificial genetic selection, and her unique take on the Ethan Hawke/Uma Thurman movie, Gattaca.
A "desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue," wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the Court's opinion.
Not a single justice was impressed by the unimpressive standing theories offered in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA.
The president has tried to shift blame for inflation, interest rate hikes, and an overall decimation of consumers' purchasing power.
Government school advocates say competition "takes money away" from government schools. That is a lie.
The president's son, who faces up to 25 years in prison for conduct that violated no one's rights, can still challenge his prosecution on Second Amendment grounds.
Policies that increase the use of traditional cigarettes are unlikely to improve public health.
New research and paternalistic legislators could threaten our last in-flight comfort.
Reasonable options include gradually raising the minimum retirement age, adjusting benefits to reflect longer life expectancies, and implementing fair means-testing to ensure benefits flow where they're actually needed.
It's the contraception mandate in reverse, with no exception for religious employers.
Bhattacharya explains the stakes of Murthy v. Missouri, the politicization of medical research, and his RFK Jr. endorsement.
At yesterday's congressional hearing, the former NIAID director played word games and shifted blame in an effort to dismiss credible claims that his agency funded work that caused the pandemic.
The president's son, who is charged with crimes that violated no one's rights, theoretically faces up to 25 years in prison.
Plus: Cryogenic freezing, masking for robberies, Trump surrenders his guns, and more...
Plus: A single-issue voter asks the editors for some voting advice in the 2024 presidential election.