On Earth Day, praise BPA (The Daily Caller)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Articles
Publish Date : Thursday, April 22, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. In the 40 years since the first Earth Day, the “Green Movement” has migrated far beyond the prevention of polluted lakes and streams and emissions from coal-burning plants to take on scientifically-shakier targets: allegedly harmful substances in food and consumer products.   Read Full >>

Stimulus Spending Meets Bad Ideas (Washington Examiner)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Articles
Publish Date : Tuesday, April 20, 2010
By Jeff Stier. It used to be that when the Federal government wanted to encourage states and cities to adhere to certain policies, they'd offer grants with strings attached. Today, however, all pretenses are out the window, and the Obama administration is taking taxpayer money and sending it directly to local governments and non-profits to lobby on behalf of nanny-state policies  Read Full >>

Activists Seek to Derail Agriculture (from Forbes.com)
Banning a widely used herbicide would set a dangerous precedent.
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Friday, April 2, 2010
By Jeff Stier.  A lawsuit in the "judicial hellhole" that is Madison County, Ill., against the makers of the world's most widely used herbicide threatens to undermine our way of evaluating risks in this country...  Read Full >>

The Plural of 'Junk Science' Is Still Junk (from the New York Post)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Wednesday, March 31, 2010
By Jeff Stier. Rep. Maloney et al cite over a hundred "studies," but many of them aren't even studies, let alone peer-reviewed...  Read Full >>

9/11 Junk Science (from the New York Post)
Health Claims Lack Evidence
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date : Wednesday, March 24, 2010
By Jeff Stier. On Friday, the judge in the Ground Zero health-claims case tossed out the recent settlement agreement, citing concerns that the deal wasn't fair to plaintiffs. Yet the fact remains that there is no credible evidence in the medical literature that exposure to Ground Zero dust can cause any chronic disease or condition...  Read Full >>