- Denialism Has No Place in Scientific Debate (Letter published in Nature Medicine, May 2010)
- Why Do We Continue to Believe Bizarre Things? (AOL News, May 13, 2010)
- The Negative Side of Positive Thinking (January 6, 2010)
- Unpopular Science: Public Distrust of Science and Technology Can be Deadly (American Outlook, Summer 1999)
- The Myth of Male-evolent Medicine (April 22, 1999)
- Time to Retire the Surgeon General's Uniform (1997)
- How to Understand
Scientific Studies and Epidemiology (Consumers' Research Magazine,
June 1993)
(Includes related article on risk ratios) - How Many Gays? Sorting Out the Truth Behind the Reported Numbers of Gays and Lesbians in U.S. Society (National Review, April 26, 1993)
- America: A Nation of Victims? (Investor's Business Daily, November 4, 1992)
- Pinstripes and Black Hats: Businessmen are Hollywood's Favorite Bad Guys (National Review, June 22, 1992)
- Rocky Flats Horror Picture Show: Rocky Flats Plutonium-Processing Plant (National Review, November 5, 1990)
- Pishposh From the 1980s: Reviewing the Decade's Big Stories (The American Spectator, March 1990)
- Nunsense at Auschwitz (Crisis Magazine, October 1989)