Author: Jeff Stier

Pink Slime: Who is the real culprit?

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In a piece for Forbes, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I write: The recent controversy over "lean finely textured beef" (LFTB), or "pink slime" as the media and activists love to call it, is reminiscent of the old TV commercial, ...
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How Canada Gets Chemical Regulation Right

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In a piece for Real Clear Policy, I write: In one sense, the environmental activists have it right: The main law governing chemical regulations in the United States is outdated. The “Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families” coalition, a group of radical environmental ...
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Good Housekeeping, Polluted

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In a piece for Junkscience.com, I write about how Good Housekeeping magazine was once a trusted source for accurate information.That reputation may be going down the drain with a misleading environmental activist hit-piece on water safety. I write, In the ...
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FDA Gets It Right on Chemical

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Sometimes the activists go so far overboard that even risk-averse agencies like the Food and Drug Administration have no choice but to draw the line in the science. And that’s what happened on Friday when the FDA rejected an outrageously ...
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We Are The 82%

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According to a new Rasmussen Poll, 82% of Americans across the country oppose rules forbidding food donations to homeless shelters, such as the one I wrote about in the New York Post last week. Joining us in condemning Mayor Bloomberg’s ...
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More Mayor Bloomberg Junk Science

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There’s been outrage from the left and the right about Mayor Bloomberg’s ban on food donations to NYC shelters. (Just do a web-search for the hundreds of stories about the issue this week.) Now, there’s more evidence of junk science ...
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FDA Science Panel: Dissolvable Tobacco Could Reduce Disease

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Kudos to a key Food and Drug Administration science panel for recognizing that tobacco users who switch from cigarette smoking to dissolvable products could reduce their health risks. As reported by the Associated Press, A Food and Drug Administration scientific ...
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The Cigarette Smokescreen

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In a piece for the Hoover Institution’s journal, Defining Ideas, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I argue that The Food and Drug Administration is passing up a historic opportunity to reduce the harmful effects of tobacco. Tobacco is different from ...
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NYC Bans Food Donations to Homeless: No Kugel for you!

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In an op-ed in today’s New York Post, I break a story that will justifiably cause much outrage. I write, So much for serving the homeless. The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, blocking ...
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Cuts to SM-3 Missile Funding Send Wrong Message to Iran

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In a piece for The Hill’s Congress Blog, I argue that a better supply of our best defense missiles will decrease  the likelihood that we’ll need to use them. President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are set to meet ...
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