Ronald Bailey: Can Censorship Stop Bioterrorism?

Open science is the best defense to flu attack.    In January, the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) recommended that the journals Nature and Science restrict publication of controversial new research relevant to the transmission of avian flu between humans. The fear: Would-be bioterrorists may be combing the pages of  ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Self-Defense Under Attack

A blind disregard for the evidence.   Critics of Florida's self-defense law object to its recognition of a right to "stand your ground" in public places, which eliminated the duty to retreat from an assailant. Yet many of these critics seem to believe they have a duty to stand their ground and never retreat, using George Zimmerman's shooting of Trayvon    ... MORE

Can Fully Informed Juries Help Cannabis Prohibition?

by Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director.    Of the many numerous peaceful and constitutionally-respectful means employed for decades by which cannabis law reformers have been to try to bring about about an end to Cannabis Prohibition laws, one of the most benign, yet most powerful arrows in the activist’s quiver is jury nullification–whereby   ... MORE