Category: Risk Analysis

MoveOn.org: Wrong on Terrorism, Wrong on Mercury

National Policy Analysis #508 /
What do al Qaeda and mercury pollution have in common? The answer: Clinton appointees who did little about them are now claiming in MoveOn.org political TV ad campaigns1,2 that, thanks to George Bush, both threaten your health. Al Qaeda's terrorist ...
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Dioxin Shenanigans: Why the is EPA Afraid of Independent Peer Review?

National Policy Analysis #492 /
If he makes it past a bruising Senate confirmation process, Utah Governor and EPA Administrator-designate Mike Leavitt will soon face an even bigger challenge. How does he deal with an entrenched EPA bureaucracy that - if it can get away ...
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Reducing Tobacco Risks With Smokeless Tobacco, by James P. Gelfand

National Policy Analysis #479 /
Despite the Surgeon General's warning, anti-smoking campaigns, anti-smoking regulations and over 440,000 smoking-related American deaths annually,1 approximately a quarter of American adults still smoke cigarettes. For approximately 40 percent of them, an addiction to nicotine keeps them puffing.2 Their addictions ...
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Feed the World: Bush Challenges European Ban on Genetically-Modified Foods

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Citing Third World Humanitarian concerns, the Bush Administration has asked the World Trade Organization to break the European Union's five-year de facto moratorium on the importation of new genetically-modified food products, or GMOs. In a speech at the coast ...
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Black Conservative Group Urges Bush to Press European Leaders to Join Fight Against Hunger in Africa; Calls for End to European Ban on Genetically Modified Food

Press Release /
Famine in Africa should be addressed at the upcoming Group of Eight economic summit, says the African-American leadership network Project 21. To help avert famine in African countries, President Bush should press European leaders to end their unscientific opposition to ...
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Lies, Damned Lies and Science: When Scientific Research is Actually Scientific Sham

National Policy Analysis #394 /
In his autobiography, Mark Twain famously - and probably wrongly - attributed to Benjamin Disraeli the now celebrated quote, "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics."1 The year was 1906, and the American public's appetite for ...
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The Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times, Part I: DDT, by Adam J. Lieberman (1967-1997) and Simona C. Kwon, M.P.H.

National Policy Analysis #386 /
Background DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was first synthesized in 1877,1 but it was not until 1940 that a Swiss chemist discovered that it could be sprayed on walls and would cause any insect to die within the next six months, without any ...
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Act With Patience or Panic? The EPA Lets Demographics Decide, by Syd Gernstein

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published December 2001 by The National Center for Public Policy Research * 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web http://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Residents of the ...
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Patience or Panic? The EPA Seems to Let Demographics Decide, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #380 /
Residents of the affluent Spring Valley community in Washington, D.C. will wake up this Christmas morning to open presents, eat coffeecake and maybe even brush snow off their SUVs and Mercedes as they have the past 15 years. Despite Spring ...
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Martial Arts for Media Watchers: A Review of Steven J. Milloy’s “Junk Science Judo – Self Defense Against Health Scares and Scams,” by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #371 /
If you plan on reading another newspaper or watching the nightly news, you need to read Steven J. Milloy's Junk Science Judo - Self Defense Against Health Scares and Scams.1 Milloy's new book is written to enable the reader - ...
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