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Ronald Bailey

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Ronald Bailey

    Trump orders mosquitoes and rats out of the District of Columbia (opens the original)

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    President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday directing various federal agencies to "develop and implement a campaign" across Washington, D.C., "to, by 2028, reduce the Asian tiger mosquito, Egyptian mosquito, and other invasive mosquito populations, as appropriate, by 90 percent and reduce the tick population by 50 percent, with further reductions as practicable." As a part-time resident of the District, I can only say, "Hooray!" The order directs agencies to deploy standard techn

  2. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Ronald Bailey

    USDA approves bioengineered American chestnut tree that could bring them back from near-extinction (opens the original)

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    The United States Department of Agriculture deregulated Darling 54, a genetically modified variety of American chestnut designed to resist the tree-killing chestnut blight. Does this mean that the restoration of this iconic tree to America's forests can soon begin? Maybe, but some researchers have their doubts. The chestnut blight fungus was identified at the Bronx Zoo in 1904, likely introduced by chestnut trees imported from East Asia. Numbering around 4 billion trees, American chestnuts once

  3. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Ronald Bailey

    Forget the population bomb. The new fear is a population implosion. (opens the original)

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    Nearly six decades ago the world was allegedly in the midst of an apocalyptic "population explosion." Today the fear among some economists is the opposite: that the world in this century is on track to experience a steep global population implosion. When the Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb in 1968, world population stood at just over 3.5 billion and the global total fertility rate was just under 5 children per woman. As a dire consequence of these trends, he declared, "

  4. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Ronald Bailey

    Breakthrough personalized mRNA vaccines are highly effective against melanoma skin cancers (opens the original)

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    Pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Merck announced today the highly promising results of their anti-cancer mRNA vaccine Phase 3 clinical trial targeting later-stage melanoma skin cancers. Researchers sequenced the DNA from each patient's tumors to create personalized vaccines that, when injected, rev up the immune system to destroy the cancer cells while leaving healthy tissues alone. The versatile mRNA platform enables researchers to manufacture bespoke vaccines for each patient in just six w

  5. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Ronald Bailey

    Global hunger falls from 35 percent in 1970 to 7.8 percent (opens the original)

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    Global hunger declined for the third consecutive year, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 report. The new report estimates that 7.8 percent of the world's people were undernourished in 2025. The FAO report notes that less than 2.5 percent of people living in the U.S., Canada, Eastern Asia, and Europe are undernourished. Therefore, its calculations chiefly encompass the extent of hunger in developing countries in A

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