Author: Jeff Stier

Bloomberg’s Food Donation Ban Still in Place

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Volunteers who want to donate food to a New York City-run homeless shelter will be turned away. As I wrote in the New York Post in March, The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, ...
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Is Organic Food Worth It?

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The federal government annually spends millions of taxpayer dollars promoting and regulating organic agriculture. Is it worth it? In a piece for Real Clear Science, I explain why pro-organic arguments made by the likes of popular television health guru, Dr ...
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Lack of Transparency Trumps Good Policy in Obama Administration

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In an op-ed in today’s Forbes.com, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I explain how a little-known agency originally funded with stimulus dollars could harm your health, in part, because of its lack of transparency. Fortunately, a House appropriations committee has ...
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WebMD: Is the Obama Administration Making Obesity Worse?

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As WebMD reports, The Obama Administration’s implementation of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 is having unintended consequences. “There’s no question that schools should encourage healthy eating,” says Jeff Stier. He is a senior fellow at the National Center ...
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Indiana State Assembly Committee Discusses Tobacco Harm Reduction, Including My Testimony

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The Indiana General Assembly’s Health Finance Commission met today to discuss tobacco harm reduction strategies to reduce smoking-attributable death and disease. My written testimony, below, was submitted and entered into the record. It was also cited at the hearing by ...
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City To Mosquitoes: Don’t Drop Dead

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In an op-ed in today’s New York Post, I explain why Mayor Bloomberg and his nanny-state health commissioner are putting New Yorkers at risk by failing to stand up to environmental activists who oppose the responsible use of low-concentration pesticides ...
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Regulatory Reform? Really?

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In a piece in today’s Townhall.com, I explain how the administration’s regulatory record doesn’t match its reform rhetoric. The Obama Administration would like to have us believe that his agencies have struck a reasonable approach to using its regulatory powers ...
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The Slippery Slope, in Action, Before Your Very Eyes

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Regulating food using the methods with which we regulate alcohol could reduce obesity. This is the conclusion of a RAND Corporation essay published in a Centers for Disease Control journal. Philadelphia public radio WHYY’s NewsWorks reports: What if candy stores ...
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Don’t Just Believe The Activist Do-Gooders

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In my op-ed in yesterday’s Washington Examiner, I explained why you shouldn’t take the science claims made by do-good nanny-state activists at face value. I continue with that theme in a piece in today’s Forbes with the Hoover Institution’s Dr ...
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Junk Science About Junk Food

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In an op-ed in today’s Washington Examiner, I take on the activists for distorting science to promote their nanny-state agenda. In the fight against obesity, should science matter? It depends on whom you ask. The answer may surprise you, and ...
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