Author: Jeff Stier

Environmental Activist Scare Debunked

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In a piece for the Huffington Post, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I take on the Environmental Working Group for scaring the public about the safety of fruits and vegetables. We also take on the scare-hungry media for reporting on the ...
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New York Post Book Review: The Food Police

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In a book review of Jayson Lusk’s “The Food Police” in today’s New York Post, I write, Activists have spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to influence what food we eat, where we buy it and where it should ...
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Why Public Health Advocates Hate E-cigarettes

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In a letter published in The Economist this week, I write, * SIR – It is no wonder many in the public-health establishment have steam coming out of their ears about e-cigarettes. Here is a product created by private-sector innovation that ...
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Mayor Bloomberg’s Secretive Food Police

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In an op-ed in today’s New York Post, I explain how the Bloomberg administration is flouting New York State’s open-government law as it legislates and regulates away our freedom to decide what to eat. Keep Food Legal, a consumer group ...
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Obesity Police: Coke is the new AR-15

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In an op-ed in Forbes, I describe the latest inflammatory language from the obesity cops. When it comes to obesity, the most prominent public health activists are intent at making it into a war, rather than a solvable problem. The ...
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Radical Animal Rights Groups and their Radical Agenda

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As I wrote in an op-ed in the Orange County Register, How’s this for a “man bites dog” story? A major nonprofit activist group is paying a corporation to settle litigation. Usually it’s the other way around. Over a decade ...
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How Far Left is the Far Left?

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In an op-ed in Forbes today, I did something uncharacteristic: I said nice things about the First Lady’s Let’s Move campaign. Praising Ms. Obama from the right doesn’t come easy. Certainly, there are examples where she’s stumbled. But by and large, ...
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Obama Administration Ignores Crimes Documented in New York Times

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In an op-ed in Forbes.com today, Dr. Henry Miller of the Hoover Institution and I ask why the Obama Administration ignored a case of high profile vigilantism. The short answer: The criminal activity was done by the left. The longer ...
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The EU’s Dangerous Tobacco Ban Experiment

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Governments around the world are getting it all wrong when it comes to tobacco regulation. It seems their goal is punishing tobacco users and tobacco companies, rather than improving public health. Remember this, from the World Health Organization last month? ...
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World Health Organization Bureaucrats Want More Bans

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As parties to a global anti-tobacco treaty meet in Seoul, South Korea this week, I wrote an op-ed for the English edition of one of South Korea’s largest newspapers. In today’s Korea JoongAng Daily, I warn about the actual public health dangers ...
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