January 1, 2004
The Ideological Environmentalist
When he set out to dispute the central claims of the global environmentalist movement, Bjorn Lomborg must have known...
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January 1, 2004
Click Twice and Call Me in the Morning
Between 1994 and 2001, American spending on prescription medications grew from $61 billion to $155 billion....
January 1, 2004
History Repeating?
In the U.K., birthplace of the pseudoscience of eugenics, old ideas apparently linger. Dr. John Harris, a bioethics...
January 1, 2004
Gatekeepers of Science
The work of scientific research depends absolutely on a reliable system of verification. For newly announced findings...
January 1, 2004
Power-Hungry China
The Middle East, the oil baron of the world, is the region on everyone’s mind today when it comes to energy policy....
January 1, 2004
‘The Seams that Hold Us Back’
In a keynote address at the COMDEX trade show on November 16, 2003, Microsoft founder Bill Gates discussed the recent...
September 22, 2003
Notes & Briefs
Citing the need to keep civil rights in step with scientific progress, the U.S. Senate recently passed a bill aimed at...
September 22, 2003
‘Tis the Season?
Ever since Margaret Sanger set up shop in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn in October 1916, dispensing her...
September 22, 2003
Caught in the Act
This fall, amid the usual deluge of spam pouring into e-mail boxes nationwide, a new computer program made its debut:...
September 22, 2003
Bank on It
Long-term, large-scale medical research projects, like the Framingham Heart Study, used to have a certain unglamorous...