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What's On Your Plate? Feb. 19, 2025
I tried meat grown in a lab. It tastes like ... well ... meat. I guess it is meat, but it's not gro... Read More
Banning Menthol Cigarettes Was Always a Bad Idea May. 02, 2024
The Biden administration recently stopped a plan to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. The excellen... Read More
Ultraprocessed Foods Are Everywhere, and the Corporate Manufacturers Do Not Care About Your Health Apr. 26, 2024
In my quest to eat healthier as an adult, I've encountered a lot of meat and dairy alternatives alon... Read More
Groceries and the Dating Game Dec. 27, 2023
Dear Cheapskate: Can you clarify expiration dates on food products? When it says "Sell By 8/01/23" d... Read More
You Can't Say That Nov. 22, 2023
My first Stossel TV Fellow, Trevor Kraus, initiated this column. Our video version is called "... Read More
Remember the Teen Vaping 'Epidemic'? Policies Inspired by That Exaggerated Threat Continue to Undermine the Harm-Reducing Potential of E-Cigarettes Nov. 08, 2023
Remember the "epidemic" of underage nicotine vaping? For years, activists, politicians and public he... Read More
When Will Politicians Learn Banning Cigarettes Will Never Work? Nov. 07, 2023
One of the most enduring lessons of American history is that the banning of liquor sales and consump... Read More
Postpartum Depression Drug Oct. 18, 2023
One in eight women experiences symptoms of postpartum depression following childbirth, including fee... Read More
Define 'Healthy' May. 31, 2023
Last fall, the Food and Drug Administration published new guidelines about which foods could be labe... Read More
Decades After the Pill Riled America, Proposed Easier Access Sparks Little Furor May. 16, 2023
The Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing birth-control pills to be sold without a pr... Read More
Shady Side of the Heat May. 03, 2023
Climate change has resulted in more extreme weather, including hotter, longer heat waves, which in t... Read More
Bailey Tries but Fails To Defend His Draconian Restriction on Transgender Medical Care Apr. 27, 2023
Unelected Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey apparently disagrees with fellow Republicans regar... Read More
Supreme Hypocrisy Apr. 13, 2023
There is nothing conservative about the ruling last week by Trump appointee Judge Matthew J. Kacsmar... Read More
Judge Had a Basis for His Attack on FDA, but Not Regarding Mifepristone Apr. 12, 2023
The chiefs of more than 400 pharmaceutical companies signed a scathing letter this week blasting fed... Read More
Texas Ruling Shows How Far Activists Will Go To Deny Abortion Rights Everywhere Apr. 11, 2023
In overturning Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court declared, with what now looks like deliberate nai... Read More
China Controls Your Meds Mar. 29, 2023
Democrats and Republicans battered TikTok's CEO at a House of Representatives hearing on Thursday &#... Read More
FDA Claims There's a 'Therapeutic Benefit' to Killing Unborn Babies With Drugs Mar. 08, 2023
When then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, he tol... Read More
Progressivism Versus Popular Sovereignty Jan. 27, 2023
On Thursday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a letter, on behalf of 16 state attorneys... Read More
The First Step to Pulling America Out of Its Tailspin Oct. 07, 2022
The bad news for America keeps coming in, fast and heavy. The current and future challenges are lini... Read More
The FDA Perversely Seeks to Make Both Cigarettes and Harm-Reducing Alternatives Less Appealing: The Agency's Policies Would Boost the Black Market and Smoking-Related Deaths Jul. 06, 2022
The Food and Drug Administration wants to prevent smoking-related deaths by making cigarettes less a... Read More
