After the Subway sandwich chain buckled to the criticism of the “Food Babe” blogger and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) rushed to the cameras to demand a ban on the harmless food additive azodicarbonamide, I had the honor of appearing on ...
Reason: It's Also Used in Yoga Mats Washington, DC - The following is the response of Jeff Stier, director of the National Center's Risk Analysis Division, to the call of Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) for a ban on azodicarbonamide after ...
Testimony Comes as Major U.S. Cities Consider Banning Public Use of E-Cigarettes Despite Their Proven Ability to Help Tobacco Smokers Quit Washington, D.C. - National Center Risk Analysis Division head Jeff Stier will testify Wednesday before a joint study committee ...
Jeff Stier, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Risk Analysis Division, chats with talk radio host and rancher Trent Loos about the politics of genetically-modified foods. New legislation has been proposed in Congress to label such foods ...
Think New Yorkers are tough? Apparently not in the minds of the leaders of the city’s public school system. These bureaucrats are in the midst of pushing a list of banned words they seem to think will meet the sensibilities ...
In a piece for The Huffington Post today, I explain how the left and the far-left are bickering over not only the role of government, but of the private sector, in the fight against obesity. Can industry be part of ...
I see on Twitter that Don Carr, Senior Advisor to the Environmental Working Group and a former Communications Director at the Democratic National Committee, has referred to my colleague, Jeff Stier, as being a member of the "tin foil hat ...
In a piece (pdf) for the Summer issue of the Cato Institute journal, Regulation, Dr. Henry I. Miller joins me in questioning whether the advice we get from popular food activists is actually valid. This matters in terms of policy, since ...
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 ...
Jeff Stier, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Risk Analysis Division, asks Pfizer CEO Ian Read about his company’s position on “academic detailing.” Academic detailing empowers academics selected by the government to guide how medical care and ...
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Category: Risk Analysis
Listen: National Center’s Almasi Shatters Chuck Schumer, Food Babe Claims Over Pennsylvania Airwaves
Senator Charles Schumer Calls for Ban on Chemical Used in Bread that Obama’s FDA Says is Safe as Used
National Center’s Jeff Stier, Though Caught in Snowstorm, Will Testify Before Special Committee of Oklahoma Legislature on Tobacco Harm Reduction Measures and E-Cigarette Regulation
Jeff Stier on Genetically-Modified Labeling
NYC Schools to Ban Guns, Drugs, Junk Food and Tsunamis
Food Fight Breaks Out on Left
Environmental Working Group Seemingly Accuses Our Jeff Stier of Mental Illness on GMO Unauthorized Release
Are Popular Food Activists Giving us Good Advice?
Environmental Activist Scare Debunked
Jeff Stier, Pfizer CEO Criticize “Academic Detailing” in Health Care