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Ronald Bailey (born November 23, 1953) is the science editor for Reason magazine. He was born in San Antonio, Texas and raised in Washington County, Virginia, and attended the University of Virginia, where he earned a B.A. in philosophy and economics in 1976. He attended the University of Virginia School of Law for three semesters. Bailey worked briefly as an economist for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission before turning to his career in writing and television production. According to his biography on the Reason website: "He has produced several series and documentaries for PBS television and ABC News. Mr. Bailey was the 1993 Warren T. Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal , The Washington Post , Commentary , The New York Times Book Review , The Public Interest , Smithsonian magazine, National Review , Forbes , The Washington Times , Newsday , and Readers Digest . He has lectured at Harvard University, Rutgers University, McGill University, University of Alaska, Universite de Quebec, the Cato Institute, the Instituto de Libertad y Desarrollo (Chile), and the American Enterprise Institute." Bailey lives in Washington, D.C., and Charlottesville, Virginia. Bailey has described himself as a "libertarian transhumanist." To this end, he has written a book entitled Liberation Biology: The Scientific And Moral Case For The Biotech Revolution. In his 1993 book, Ecoscam, and other works, Bailey criticised claims that CFCs contributed to ozone depletion and that human activity was contributing to global warming. On this and other occasions, he suggested that the scientific consensus regarding global warming was the product of a scam or conspiracy.Writing in the National Review in 1997, Bailey said
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