Category: Health

ObamaCare-Funded Federal Program Leads to Crackdown on E-Cigarettes

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Devices that Help Smokers Quit Smoking Now to Be Heavily Regulated in Boston Which City is Next? Federal Program Funding Pro-Regulation Effort Set to Spend $2 Billion Tax Dollars a Year by 2015 Washington, D.C. - Following lobbying from the ...
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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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Government Run Healthcare Skews Science

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First, it was just a good, but hypothetical argument against the government’s increasing role in paying for healthcare. Now, the argument that it will skew scientific decision-making is having real-world impact on a process that should be driven by sicence.  ...
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GroupSnoop.org Launches to Provide Background, Data on Nation’s Most Influential Public Policy Non-Profits

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Washington, D.C. - The National Center For Public Policy Research announces today the launch of its new educational website, GroupSnoop.org, to provide a candid, documented analysis of the work and impact of the nation's most influential public policy-oriented non-profits. "This ...
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Activists’ Dangerous “Dirty Dozen” Drama Debunked; Media Dozes

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In a piece for Forbes, Dr. Henry Miller of the Hoover Institution joins me in reporting about how activist NGO’s promote fear mongering about food, but when scientists speak out to debunk the scares, the media is deafeningly silent. You ...
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Government Regulation Will Literally Take People’s Breath Away, by Bob Parks

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It's not news that far too many environmentalists prefer trees, animals and insects over people. In 1962, environmentalist icon Rachel Carson — a government bureaucrat at the time — chose nature. She created a stink about the highly-effective pesticide DDT, ...
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The Government War Against Quitting Smoking

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The Government War Against Quitting Smoking This headline might be more telling for my piece today in National Review Online, co-authored with Gregory Conley from Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives. Earlier this month, the government announced it is falling behind ...
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Crowder Discusses Social Security and Ponzi Schemes on “Fox and Friends”

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Steven Crowder, the National Center’s media fellow, talks about his call to the Securities and Exchange Commission to report that he is being forced to participate in what he thinks might be a “Ponzi scheme” called Social Security. In the ...
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Jeff Stier Analyzes Role of Surgeon General on NPR

Senior fellow Jeff Stier, head of the National Center’s Risk Analysis Division, appeared on the National Public Radio program “Tell Me More” on 9/1/11.  During the segment, Jeff questions the relevance of the federal, taxpayer-supported office of the surgeon general ...
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National Center Senior Fellow Jeff Stier Provides FDA Public Comment

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Caught with a hand-held camera, National Center for Public Policy Research senior fellow Jeff Stier submits a public comment on the issue of tobacco harm reduction before the Food and Drug Administration’s public workshop on “Scientific Evaluation of Modified Risk ...
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