An analysisthat concluded mercury exposure is reducing children's IQs is flawed, invalid, and not appropriate as an input to policy decisions.

The term "political science" used to mean public policy studied not just as opinion but based on empirical, documentable evidence. Today it's come to mean something darker--the subversion of science in the hands of ideologues committed to manipulating public policy to their end. This new, and disheartening use of the...

Both my own research and reading in the literature suggests that EPA has serious problems in the way it employs scientific information when it assesses both the potential benefits, and potential costs of existing and proposed public policies.

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

Legal scholars of widely varying perspectives discuss the future structure and shape of American federalism.

Evidence continues to mount that air pollution at contemporary low levels is causing little or no harm, even in the most polluted areas of the country.

Air pollution affects far fewer people, far less often, and with far less severity than suggested by media and activist reports.

Where has national ozone policy gone wrong, and how can we acheive healthy air at a far lower price?