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The World's First (and Last) ‘Genetically Modified’ ChildrenAnti-GM activists are freaking out about a fertility treatment that hasn't been used in over a decade. |
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The Real History of the FedThe Fed emerged not as a response to a free market in banking, nor as the result of shadowy conspiracies, but – predictably – as a response to the failures of prior government interventions. |
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The Christian Taliban Who Is Writing
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Fact-Checking: Is the UK Really 5 Times More Violent than the US?We take a skeptical look at the numbers. |
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Libertarians Should Support Science-Based MedicineTom Woods and Lew Rockwell attack skeptical libertarians for supporting evidence-based medicine, while peddling AIDS denialism and anti-vaccine conspiracies. |
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Libertarians Must Oppose Conspiracy TheoriesOur commitment is to reality and to a conversation based on reason and evidence. Scientific skepticism is the surest way to preserve that integrity. |
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Remedial Economics and the Minimum WagePresident Obama and two-thirds of Americans support raising the minimum wage. Here are the basic economic facts they're missing. |
The Skeptical Libertarians At Large
Our contributors' articles from around the web.
OpenMarket | Americans Reject Actual E-Verify System
When government programs like E-Verify are presented as cost-free and perfectly effective solutions, everybody supports them. But when the American people are presented with the price tag of such difficult, harmful, and expensive regulations, they soundly reject them. In a new Reason-Rupe poll, when informed of E-Verify's costs, even two-thirds of Republicans rejected it.
Fox Business | Bolton Clashes With Stossel Over Obama’s Drones, Accuses Libertarians Of ‘Defending The Confederacy’
Watch: (Via Mediate) At the 2013 International Students For Liberty Conference, former UN Ambassador John Bolton clashed with John Stossel and TSL editor Daniel Bier over the wisdom and legality of President Obama's drone assassination program.
NPR Seattle | E-Verify: A Verifiably Good Or Bad Idea?
President Obama thinks E-Verify should be mandatory as part of his plan for immigration reform. Is this a good idea? How accurate is E-Verify? Will it stop illegal immigration? David Bier debates Roy Beck of Numbers USA on NPR affiliate KUOW.
Fox 19 | Reality Check: An "Apples to Apples" comparison of U.S. and U.K. violent crime rates
WATCH: Ben Swann issues a correction to his previous report about Piers Morgan, guns, and violence in the United States and the United Kingdom, extensively citing our fact-check of his initial coverage, including our better estimate of the true violent crime rate in the UK.
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Hayek on Liberal Skepticism
"The liberal differs from the conservative in his willingness to face this ignorance and to admit how little we know, without claiming the authority of supernatural forces of knowledge where his reason fails him. It has to be admitted that in some respects the liberal is fundamentally a skeptic."
— F.A. Hayek, Why I Am Not a Conservative
