Author: Jeff Stier

Involuntary Greenwashing is a Dirty Business

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In an item I blogged and wrote an op-ed about last week, I examined how California environmental activists are using irrational and unscientific arguments to push for an unjustified ban on polystyrene food service items. Now, we are learning of ...
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Green Activists Push Polystyrene Ban in California; We Push Back

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In an op-ed in the Orange County Register, Dr. Henry I. Miller of the Hoover Institution and I argue against a legislative effort to ban polystyrene foodservice containers throughout California. We write: The California Assembly could soon vote to make ...
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FDA Tobacco Science Panel Headed in Wrong Direction

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The Food and Drug Administration’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) has posted a draft summary of their report on dissolvable tobacco products.  The report is available for download here. The report was required by Congress and will be considered ...
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Fighting Senseless Sin Taxes in Maryland: “There’s good reason for lower taxes on smokeless tobacco”

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My letter to the editor in The Baltimore Sun challenges the paper’s editorial support for a proposal to raise sin-taxes on smokeless tobacco to the same (nearly confiscatory) rate as on cigarettes, which are far more harmful. I write, Your ...
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When Bureaucrats Stymie Science

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In an article in Defining Ideas, a journal of the Hoover Institution, former senior Food and Drug Administration official (and Hoover Fellow) Dr. Henry I. Miller and I examine problems with how the government is making an important decision about ...
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Reflections About Dr. Chris Raines from a Friend, Colleague, and Follower

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There are many reasons why health policies have become so distorted, based on unscientific agendas, and polarizing. But today is not a day for political pontificating about why that is. It is enough to say that too few scientists are ...
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Missile Defense: A Missed Opportunity

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Americans who get their news only from mainstream broadcast outlets must think that Democrats want to increase all spending except for defense, while Republicans want to cut all spending except for defense, and there, they want to spend recklessly. Like ...
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There’s Something Not Kosher About The Sustainability Movement

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It has become increasingly fashionable among some in my Jewish community to promote the notion that kosher food must be, what they call, “sustainable.” First, it is important to understand that kosher food laws are strictly religious in nature; it ...
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National Review Online today: The Happy Meal Ban Flops

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My piece in today’s National Review Online: The Happy Meal Ban Flops The law reveals the motivations behind the nanny state. San Francisco’s ban on McDonald’s Happy Meals goes into effect today. But because the law bans only giving away ...
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Senate Missile Defense Strategy Strikes Right Balance

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In a piece in The Hill’s Congress Blog, I pointed out that, If Congress doesn’t set its defense priorities clearly, there is a risk that the the budget cutting super-committee will slash military spending in a way that will hamper ...
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