ACIP Chair Wonders Aloud If We Should Really Be Vaccinating For Polio These Days
The travesty that is RFK Jr. in charge of American health and what he’s done to the CDC’s ACIP committee for vaccines continues to be visited upon all of us. It’s really important to keep in mind that...
View ArticleNY Times Runs Defense For Social Media Bans, Buries Evidence They Don’t Work...
Imagine you’re writing an article about a popular policy trend. The trend is expensive to implement, disruptive to normal operations, and—here’s the key part—there’s substantial research showing it...
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Trump Supporters Are Lying About Biden ‘Censorship’ To Justify Brendan Carr’s...
Trump supporters cycled through increasingly desperate explanations for why the Jimmy Kimmel situation was totally legitimate. First came the absurd “low ratings” defense—because sure, networks...
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The Trump FTC’s War On Porn Just Ensured That Accused CSAM Offenders Will...
Well, they finally did it. A federal agency finally shattered the precarious base that upholds the edifice of prosecutions for child sex abuse material (CSAM) in America. That agency is the Federal...
View ArticleExperts Universally Pan Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation” As...
The verdict is in on Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation,” and it’s devastating. A new piece in TES Magazine systematically demolishes Haidt’s claims by doing something revolutionary: actually...
View ArticleOregon Appeals Court Says Bullet Cartridge Matching Is Just More Junk Science
This isn’t the first state court to reach this conclusion, but so few courts bother to examine the science-y sounding stuff cops trot out as “evidence” that this decision is worth noting. There’s no...
View ArticleJudge Shreds DOJ’s Manufactured Case Against Abrego Garcia: Evidence ‘Defies...
The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia (who we now find out, via his lawyer, prefers to be called Kilmar Abrego) keeps getting more and more bizarre. After being “accidentally” shipped to El Salvador —...
View ArticleJudge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On...
When Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably weren’t expecting to get schooled on moral...
View ArticleSuing Apple To Force It To Scan iCloud For CSAM Is A Catastrophically Bad Idea
There’s a new lawsuit in Northern California federal court that seeks to improve child safety online but could end up backfiring badly if it gets the remedy it seeks. While the plaintiff’s attorneys...
View ArticleNew Jersey Trying To Salvage Its Sketchy AF Infant DNA Harvesting Program By...
The state of New Jersey has been sued twice over its infant DNA program. Like the rest of the nation, New Jersey hospitals collect a blood sample from newborns to test them for 60 different health...
View ArticleCourt Reverses Conviction After Cops Lied To Suspect About Having A Warrant...
It’s well-known that cops can lie to suspects to obtain confessions or further information from suspects. But not always. This Delaware case, brought to us by FourthAmendment.com, demonstrates that...
View ArticleAppeals Court Tells Cops They Can’t Hold A House Hostage For Hours Before...
Most people would respond to a possible drug overdose by seeking immediate medical attention and following up with medical professionals to see how the victim is faring. I mean, that’s what the EMTs...
View ArticleGavin Newsom Jumps On Moral Panic Bandwagon To Ban Phones In School Despite...
We live in the age of performative lawmaking. Something must be done! This is something. We will do it. Who cares about the tradeoffs, nuances, or the evidence? Throw all that out the window and DO...
View ArticleState Court Says There’s A Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy In Conversations...
Kind of an odd bit of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence here, given all the factors. (h/t FourthAmendment.com) Obviously, some conversations have an expectation of privacy, even when they’re held in...
View ArticleUK MPs In Full Moral Panic Decide To Ignore The Research, Push For Dangerous...
The moral panic about kids and technology these days is just getting dumber and dumber. The latest is that MPs in the UK are considering an outright ban on smartphones for kids under 16. Just last...
View ArticleCourt To Cops: Sucking At Your Job And Slow-Walking A Stop Means You Lose All...
Pretextual stops. Let’s talk about it. Cops who perform traffic stops are rarely performing traffic stops because they care about traffic safety. They’re looking for something — anything — else....
View ArticleBecause Facial Recognition Tech Just Isn’t Sketchy Enough, Cops Are Now...
Facial recognition tech is probably improving as time goes on. Given enough providers, controversy, and individuals who definitely want this tech to stop being so terrible at correctly identifying...
View ArticleInvestigation: ‘Gold Standard’ Of Evidence Turned To Pyrite By Colorado Crime...
Law enforcement investigators and prosecutors have overwhelmingly embraced plenty of pseudoscience over the years, treating everything from bite marks to hair samples as conclusive evidence capable of...
View ArticleCourt: Turning A Minor Parking Violation Into A String Of Rights Violations...
No matter how minor the infraction, it still deserves the court’s full attention. That’s the ultimate lesson of this New York court decision, brought to us by FourthAmendment.com. It starts with an...
View ArticleStudy: Field Drug Tests Generate Nearly 30,000 Bogus Arrests A Year
Field drug tests often seem to be more a triumph of imagination than a triumph of science. They’re cheap. Some popular tests run less than $3/per. That’s the literal selling point. When in doubt, a cop...
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