The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is a key element of my piece in today’s Washington Examiner. The Foundation funds studies to advance its nanny state agenda. Their studies are often funded in partnership with government agencies (who share that ...
Winston Churchill didn’t even know about Twitter when he said that “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on.” Overheated and half-baked reporting about health scares is a case in point. It takes little ...
My op-ed (registration required) in today’s Roll Call, calls on legislators to exercise oversight on the Obama administration’s illegal use of taxpayer dollars to lobby local governments. The time has come for Congressional oversight hearings focused on how the Centers ...
As I write in a piece for The Hill’s Congress blog today, at a time when budgets are tight and risks are high, we need a smarter missile defense approach than the one President Obama calls for in his budget ...
In a piece for Forbes, Dr. Henry Miller and I provide some background on a movie brought to you by the people who brought you “An Inconvenient Truth.” We write, Coming soon to your local movie theater is a documentary ...
As NCPPR Chairman Amy Ridenour wrote in this space, America cares about the proposed soda ban. But why? So many people, myself included, almost never drink any full sugar soda. The only time I remember buying such a large soda ...
In a piece for the Washington Examiner, I write about one Obamacare program you won’t hear much about. That’s because many details of the costly plan to convince doctors to use older and cheaper drugs are kept secret. As I ...
Thursday, May 31st is the World Health Organization’s World No Tobacco Day. Sounds like a good thing. The world would be a better place if nobody used tobacco. Few would disagree that the goal is unrealistic. But what is the ...
In an op-ed in today’s Newsday, David Almasi and I explain why the obesity forecast in the news this week is overblown, and how it was choreographed to justify more nanny-state regulations. We wrote, Take those grim claims about a ...
In a piece today for Breitbart’s Big Government, I criticize the Food and Drug Administration for distorting both law and science. The Food and Drug Administration is supposed to be the scientific arbiter concerning the safety of dietary supplements. Instead, ...
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