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<title><![CDATA[Ronald Bailey - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16402.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ronald Bailey]]></description><category domain="16402">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Is the End of the Obesity Epidemic Near?]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2026/05/22/is-the-end-of-the-obesity-epidemic-near-people-lost-up-to-85-pounds-using-new-weight-loss-drug/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Eli Lilly's retatrutide is a significant advance on the promising results from drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chernobyl Wasn't a Nuclear Disaster, It Was a Communist One]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2026/04/26/chernobyl-was-a-communist-disaster-not-a-nuclear-one/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forty years after the Chernobyl meltdown, too many people are still drawing the wrong conclusions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rush To Regulate Artificial Intelligence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/04/21/ronald_bailey_joins_the_panel_the_rush_to_regulate_artificial_intelligence_and_rfk_jr_runs_for_president.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reason magazine science correspondent Ronald Bailey, RealClearPolitics president and co-founder Tom Bevan, and Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon join Andrew Walworth on today's RCP Takeaway podcast.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After 53 Earth Days, Society Still Hasn't Collapsed]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2022/04/22/after-53-earth-days-society-still-hasnt-collapsed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Limits to Growth is still as wrongheaded as it is possible to be.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Evidence Suggests Covid-19 Leaked From Wuhan Lab]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/05/12/did-covid-19-leak-from-a-wuhan-lab/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Circumstantial evidence that it may have is mounting.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FDA's Decision to Pause J&amp;J Vaccination Will Kill People]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/04/13/the-fdas-decision-to-pause-jj-vaccination-will-kill-people/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The risks of blood clots are much lower than the risks of COVID-19 illness, hospitalizations, and deaths.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Global Environmental Apocalypse Has Been Canceled]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2020/08/01/the-global-environmental-apocalypse-has-been-canceled/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Environmental humanism will eventually triumph over apocalyptic environmentalism."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Studies: Herd Immunity Closer Than Antibody Tests Suggest]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2020/07/01/covid-19-herd-immunity-is-much-closer-than-antibody-tests-suggest-say-2-new-studies/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the findings are true, that's really great news.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Amazon Burning Is Mostly Farms, Not Forests]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2019/08/23/dont-panic-amazon-burning-is-mostly-farms-not-forests/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Problematic deforestation continues, but the "lungs of the earth" are still breathing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Improving State of the World Can't Be Denied]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2019/08/03/impending-defeat-for-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pestilence, war, famine, and death are all on the decline.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Global Warming Hiatus Is Real]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/24/global-warming-hiatus-is-real</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lots of climate researchers and climate change activists have been discombobulated by the fact that global average temperature increases have been considerably slower during the first years of this century than most climate models projected. There have been scores of studies that have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals Are Simple-Minded]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2016/01/15/liberals-are-simple-minded</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is almost a truism among psychological researchers that conservatives are simple-minded and dogmatic. Liberals, meanwhile, are supposed to be more complex and open-minded thinkers. But a new paper is calling those conclusions into question.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Writing in the journal Political...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rough, Fantastical Road to 'Climate Justice']]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/archives/2015/10/23/the-climate-justice-fantasy</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rancorous negotiations over a draft version of a universal climate treaty took place this week in Bonn, Germany. The treaty is supposed to be adopted by nearly 200 nations at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris in December. The fight in Bonn is over how much the countries of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are There Any Jobs Still Left?]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2015/08/28/why-are-there-any-jobs-still-left</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Study: People Faster to Shoot White Suspects]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/03/study-people-more-likely-to-shoot-white</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new study in the Journal of Experimental Criminology finds in an experiment measuring the reactions of participants to various threatening situations that people tended to pull the trigger faster when confronted by armed white suspects. This sounds counterintuitive to most people...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ugly Climate Models Can't Explain Last 15 Years]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/12/18/ugly-climate-models</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In September the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the final draft of Climate Change 2013: The Physical Sciences Basis. The report's "Summary for Policymakers" flatly states: "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ABC Shouldn't Give Jenny McCarthy a Platform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/15/jenny-mccarthy-view-column/2519101/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vaccine misinformation peddler actress Jenny McCarthy has just been named co-host of the popular ABC day time television show, The View. This is really bad news for America's children. Why? Back in 2007, McCarthy helped stoke the anti-vaccine campaign when she asserted on the Oprah...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Ecological Central Planning]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/28/obamas-climate-five-year-plan</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The central planners in communist governments were notorious for issuing massively detailed top-down five-year plans to manage every facet of their economies. The accumulating inefficiency and waste produced by this sort of rigid planning led eventually to the demise of those regimes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do We Live in a Post-Truth Era?]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/02/01/do-we-live-in-a-post-truth-era</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts," the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) famously quipped. But when it comes to social and environmental problems nowadays, nearly everyone thinks he is entitled to his own facts, and an army of experts is on hand to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Promised Land of Fracking]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/08/the-promised-land-of-fracking</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Matt Damon's new film Promised Land is stoking the controversy over fracking, the shorthand for natural gas production using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. The film pits a big natural gas production company against economically stressed farmers in a Pennsylvania community...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/24/half-the-facts-you-know-are-probably-wro</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Increased K-12 spending and lower pupil/teacher ratios boost public school student outcomes. Most of the DNA in the human genome is junk. Saccharin causes cancer and a high fiber diet prevents it. Stars cannot be bigger than 150 solar masses.In the past...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bureaucrats Didn't Build America]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/25/build-that-entrepreneurs-government</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'If you'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'ve got a business - you didn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t build that. Somebody else made that happen,'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' declared President Barack Obama at a campaign stop last week in Virginia. Evidently, the president believes that economic growth and job creation are largely the result of actions taken by benevolent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Caves to Environmental Lobby]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2012/01/18/president-obama-bows-to-special-interest</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta, Canada, would daily transport more than 500,000 barrels of oil derived from oil sands to the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. already imports about 2 million barrels of oil per day from Canada. Since the pipeline crosses our border the president...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Global Warming Been Called Off?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearscience.com/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, Science published a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' new study by Oregon State University researcher Andreas Schmittner and colleagues who found that an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may result in less warming than predicted. The researchers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' declared that their results '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'imply less...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Makes a Vacuous Promise on Regulations]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/20/president-obama-adopt-only-goo</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, President Barack Obama issueda new executive order commanding the federal bureaucracy toeliminate bad regulations and adopt only good ones. As he explained in a Wall Street Journal op/ed:...we are also making it our mission to root out regulationsthat conflict, that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Carbon Rationing By Other Means]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/28/carbon-rationing-by-other-mean</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Plan A was to get a massive cap-and-trade carbon rationing scheme adopted by Congress. The scheme aimed at imposing mandatory cuts on U.S. emissions of the greenhouse gases, chiefly carbon dioxide, that are thought to be warming the atmosphere. Six months after President Barack...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Security Bureaucrats Terrorize Capitol Hill]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2010/02/03/federal-security-bureaucrats-t</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[NYT's Transparently Partisan Headlines]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2010/01/22/i-just-love-new-york-times-hea</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Would Real Health Care Reform Look Like?]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/23/markets-not-mandates</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While congressional reform efforts screech and shudder along, let's take a moment to dream about real health care reform. Imagine a system that is genuinely transparent, competitive, and driven by consumers.Right now, thanks to incentives built into the tax code,patients are locked into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climategate and Ideology]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2009/12/04/climategate-and-ideology</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ronald Bailey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Time magazine's reporting generally embodies the   conventional wisdom -- or would that be the "consensus view"?   Never mind. In any case, reporter Bryan Walsh takes a look at the      fallout from the Climategate affair, and worries that views   of climate catastrophe skeptics have...]]></description>
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