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Model article
Excellent article from Ryan Meyer of the Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes at the University of Arizona on the inadequacies of models that…
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Lucy’s “Top Twaddlers”
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Who’s the Denier?
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Just how widespread is misrepresentation in climate science?
Roger Pielke Jr has some strong words about a forthcoming paper that he feels misrepresents his work. Note that we’re not talking about an…
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Criminals: The New Protected Class
Employers in Washington, D.C. may soon be banned from considering criminal convictions in hiring, if the criminal’s probation or parole officer thinks he has “achieved…
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DDT and Malaria: The Misanthropes Strike Back!
The recent decision by the World Health Organization to recommend selective indoor spraying to control malaria seemed to signal a recognition on the part of…
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But At Least the Egyptians Kept the Operating Costs Down!
And, yet, another story about the virtues of mass transit, the horrors of the automobile. John Pomfret, a Washington Post journalist, wrote an article this…
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Can the Greens Take a Joke?
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U.S. District Court to Hear Landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Case
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EU trade chief nixes carbon taxes; hails zero tariffs for “green” goods
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Do as I say, not as I do
Interesting survey of the attitudes of British people towards the environment and their actions on the subject.
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Perhaps if the snowmobiles had been carved from walrus tusks?
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Another Stern Rebuke
Hal Varian of the University of California, Berkeley, joins the ranks of distinguished critics of the Stern Report: As these examples illustrate,…
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Did he really just say that?
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They Call It Conservation
You know all of those enviro activists who are constantly hectoring us about the amount of energy we use (and allegedly waste) here in the…
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Claims by Energy Security Advocates Clash with Consumer Safety Concerns
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 Washington, D.C., December 19,…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. SCIENCE Researchers suggest a link between climate change and increased rates of malaria infection…
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Only You
Nearly 7 million copies of Time magazine's annual “Person of the Year” issue are set to arrive in mailboxes and on newsstands in…
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Ahmet Ertegun, RIP
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U.S. and China — some economic agreement, still some thorny issues
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Oversize clothes need warning labels?
Here’s a contender for the Nanny-State story of the day: A British academic says that plus-size clothes should carry labels with obesity helpline numbers…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Big technology companies lobby Washington for data privacy legislation. CEI Experts Available…
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Climate change enhancing seals’ sex lives
Well, there’s good news today about climate change effects — male gray seals have a more active sex life. Near a remote island off…
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Draining the Swamp: Reform for Anti-Malaria Policy
The White House is hosting a summit on malaria this week, and our good friend Roger Bate will be attending. And since Roger has…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH A new study finds Americans are unsure about the safety of biotech foods.
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Leonardo, Green Warrior, Saves the World
No, not that one, this one. At least one poster, “Jeffrey P,” wants to save us from celebrity opinions, while combating global warming…
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European Health Care – Here We Come!
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Ban It – and Industry Will Find a Substitute!
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Washington Post fires Last Shot (for a while) at Inhofe
The desire of global warming alarmists to close off debate was evidenced in a recent Washington Post editorial (of Sunday, December 10, 2006) which…
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CEI makes Weather Channel’s “Top Ten” – greatest impact on climate change discussion
The Weather Channel today announced its “Top Ten” list — those people or organizations that have had the greatest impact on climate change discussions.
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Incoming Judiciary chairman to defend privacy rights
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), perhaps more famous for his defense of the Vermont dairy industry and the Northeast Dairy Compact, is incoming chairman of…
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Followup on WSJ letters today
My favorite quote from the Wall Street Journal Letters today (see Ivan’s earlier post) was from Christopher Monckton, former science and technical adviser to former…
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Yet Another Round of Rockefeller-Snowe objection
Today’s Wall Street Journal features several letters to the editor (subscription required) on the paper’s editorial on the Rockefeller-Snowe letter to ExxonMobil.
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REACH and the Perils of Precaution
Today, the European Parliament voted a final time on the new regulation of Europe’s chemical industry. With this vote the proposal is almost certain to…
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Time for a virtual games Declaration of Independence
Some say online virtual reality operations like “Second Life” have attained the stage of evolution that blogging and the Net itself occupied several…
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Animal cloning no barnyard bijou
There was a time when you would be labeled a right-wing extremist for demanding the Food and Drug Administration base decisions on morality…
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Top Ten Junk Science Moments for 2006
It’s time again for JunkScience.com’s review of the most notable junk science events of the year – a “top 10” list that may sometimes…
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Proposed trans fat ban based on a lot of junk science
Dear Chicago Restaurantgoer: Ald. Ed Burke (14th) proposed last July that the Chicago City Council ban restaurants from serving foods made with vegetable oils…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. INTERNATIONAL The European Union approves a new law, known as “REACH,” regulating the manufacture…
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Sarbox-Style Regulation: Don’t Do It
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Affordable air travel? How dare you!
The UK government, which this week doubled air passenger duty to about $20 a flight in a sop to global warming alarmism, wants to go…
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More on the Rockefeller-Snowe letter – Rockefeller attacked in home state; he responds
The Daily Mail (Charleston, WV) on December 5 carried a strong editorial castigating its junior senator, Jay Rockefeller, for his joint letter to ExxonMobil.
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It’s official — Vietnam to join WTO
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Eco-censorship continued
Two interesting posts on Roger Pielke Jr’s excellent and open-minded Prometheus blog today speak to the subject of my recent…
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Rocky-Snowe Road Winds On
As the controversy over the letter by Senators Rockefeller and Snowe chiding ExxonMobil for its funding of global warming skeptics, The Wall Street Journal,…
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U.S. Businesses, Consumers to Feel Effects of Massive European Chemical Regulations
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., December…
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SEC Drops the Ball on Sarbanes-Oxley
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., December 13, 2006—The Competitive Enterprise Institute today criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to provide meaningful…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH The Food and Drug Administration announces a plan to speed up access to…
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Take That, Liberal Media!
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Stern Lectures
Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the wildly hyped and widely disparaged Stern Review on the economics of climate change, is leaving Her Majesty’s…
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So what’s stopping them?
The incoming leadership of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are keen to use global warming as a stick to beat the Administration with…
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Pricking the pomposity of EU’s trade policymaker
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U.S. dairy program at odds with free enterpriser
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Miliband’s disingenuity
I should have drawn attention to this interesting phrasing in David Miliband’s enthusiasm for carbon rationing: “He said: ‘It is a way of pricing carbon…
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Scientists disprove Impressionism
The term “impressionism” was originally meant as an insult, alleging that painters such as Claude Monet merely slapped a few strokes of paint onto a…
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Black marketeers rejoice at UK government plan
The UK government is seriously thinking of introducing individual carbon rationing: Every citizen would be issued with a carbon “credit…
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Cows Are Destroying the Earth
And I thought the IPCC Fourth Assessment (see below) was good news. Now I know that we humans really are off the hook when it…
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Thanks, UN, for Shrinking My Carbon Footprint by 25%
The latest iteration on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report on global warming it being eagerly awaited. While we bide our time,…
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Radicals for Capitalism
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Should We Restrict Ourselves to the War of Ideas?
Economic liberalism faces a multi-front assault, an assault that has been underway for decades but that has intensified in recent years. As discussed in the…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Tech companies lobby for federal data privacy regulation. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President…
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Do global warming fears justify protectionism?
Ever since the United States decided to push for “sustainable development” concepts to limiit free trade under the Shrimp-Turtle decision (for internal political reason –…
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Can Libertarians Become Liberaltarians?
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New York City Bans Science
The New York City Board of Health this week banned the use of trans fats by restaurants. The decision is directly traceable back to…
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Marlo responds to Al Gore
CEI’s Marlo Lewis’ appearance on Oprah’s show on Tuesday, Dec. 5, opposite Al Gore was via a taped two-minute segment juxtaposed against Gore’s 30-minute plus…
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Amazingly efficient merger approvals, cont.
Congress leaves town today, with just two appropriations bills completed (that can be a good thing!). Agencies aren’t going anywhere, but there must be something…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Scientists predict an intense hurricane season for 2007. CEI Expert Available to…
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EIA: Fossil fuels will provide same 86% share in 2030
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts continuing strong demand for fossil energy. EIA’s just-released Annual Energy Outlook 2007 states: “Despite the projected rapid growth of…
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Popping with the Popcorn Board
As I was skimming government agencies’ websites for topical issues, a U.S. Department of Agriculture press release today sidetracked me. It seems that the Secretary…
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Tobacco Scam
In 1998, the big tobacco companies entered into a $250 billion settlement with trial lawyers and the attorneys general of 46 states. Big Tobacco agreed…
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Look Out for Hurricane Fred
Our fearless leader, Fred Smith, is on the road again, spreading the good news of free markets and limited government. Yesterday he spoke to a…
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Regulation Before Occupation
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Let Them Use Solar
It’s a heart-warming ad, literally. A poverty-striken mother and daughter sit freezing in their unheated home in the dead of winter, trying to warm themselves…
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Love Global Warming
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Freedom Fighter
The war to advance economic liberty will last forever. The effort is frustrating and often discouraging. Many freedom fighters burn out, retire from the field,…
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The Case Against Racial ‘Balancing’ Schemes
The editorial “A Different Race Case” argued that Seattle’s use of race in assigning students to schools should be upheld by the Supreme Court…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The House of Representatives considers a vote on allowing more offshore oil and…
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Are you now or have you ever been a skeptic?
From this week’s Evans-Novak Political Report: Important Bush Administration officials are ready to leave the government rather than undergo two years of hell from Democratic…
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Congress votes highest civilian honor to Dr. Norman Borlaug
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to award a Congressional Gold Medal — the nation’s highest honor — to Dr. Norman Borlaug, credited…
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To Play the King
Prince Charles has decided his staff should bicycle everywhere and that he himself should practice what he preaches,…
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Does Diversity Mean No Whites?
On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a minority-oriented school can exclude members of all but one race (Native Hawaiians), even if…
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Look out Mars, the Humans Are Coming
Today NASA released a series of satellite photograps of Mars, which strongly reinforce the theory that there is (or very recently was) liquid water on…
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House Should Oppose Weak Offshore Energy Bill
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., December 7, 2006—The Competitive Enterprise Institute urges the U.S. House of Representatives to resist…
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Oreskes Confusion
Appearing on “Oprah,” Al Gore cited a review of the climate change literature by Dr. Naomi Oreskes of the University of California as the last…
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Oprah Viewers Respond
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CEI’s Marlo Lewis on Oprah
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Creative Destruction, The Musical
Alex Singleton’s LibertarianHome blog (go bookmark it) today highlights a new Economic Research Council report on the British pop music business called Creative…
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Fly Me (Privately) to the Moon
Like an old boyfriend you stopped calling months ago, NASA has decided it wants to re-capture America’s heart with a bold new proposal. The aeronautical…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY NASA plans a taxpayer-funded moon base to be developed by the year 2020.
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An End to Racial Engineering?
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two important racial discrimination cases. Parents in Seattle and Louisville are challenging their children’s exclusion from…
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Gwyneth Paltrow Hates Capitalism
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The Science of ‘Deathenol’
The Internet Skeptic (“Critical Analysis of Today’s Headlines”) emails today about some of his recent YouTube videos. One that caught my eye was…
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Today’s must-read
A must-read is today’s lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal (free subscription required) — “Global Warming Gag Order — Senators…
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I invented that sandwich!
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When in the course of human events…
Seemingly forgetting about a little thing called the Declaration of Independence, Albert Gore Jr., former Vice President of the United States of America has joined…
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Specialty crops want their share of farm subsidies
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Global Warming Gag Order
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. POLITICS The Wall Street Journal editorializes on the efforts of two U.S. Senators to pressure ExxonMobil…
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Eco-Censorship: The Effort to Thwart the Climate Change Debate
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