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Constipated Colombia Pact

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 04/08/2011

Pres. Obama has made expanding U.S. exports a centerpiece of his economic plan. In his January State of the Union Address, he noted that "95%…

Trade and International

Blog

3 Numbers: Why a U.S. Economic Meltdown is Inevitable

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 04/05/2011

Amount Democrats argue should be cut from current budget to raise debt ceiling: $33 billion. Amount Republicans argue should be cut: $61 billion. Monthly increase…

Blog

Rationality and the Taping of Moving Boxes

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 03/09/2011

I have long been fascinated by both aberrational and irrational human behavior, at least since I documented a mass outbreak of hysteria regarding the so-called…

Blog

The American Subsidy is Coming to an End

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 01/28/2011

Two items on the front page of yesterday’s Washington Post: “Record U.S. Deficit Projected this Year” and “Two lawmakers from Michigan propose billions in incentives for…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Autism Doctor a Fraud, But Hardly Alone

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 01/10/2011

“A deliberate fraud.” That’s what the British Medical Journal, one of the world’s most prestigious periodicals, has written of the study…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

It’s World AIDS Day; Is it the “Forgotten Epidemic”?

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 12/01/2010

World AIDS Day has rolled around again, amid charges by C. Everett Koop that “HIV is no longer on the public’s radar screen, and…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Now! In Black and White, the Toyota Hysteria Exemplified!

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 11/18/2010

It’s not “live!” It’s not even “In color!” And there’s no sound. But it’s quite stunning. A surveillance video  posted by Fox Chicago News…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Butcher’s Bill for Texting While Driving

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/29/2010

In my LA Times piece “Texters, You’d Be Better off Driving Drunk,” Oct. 3, I stated “There are no reliable studies regarding deaths associated…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Supreme Court Case May Wipe Out Vaccine Industry

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/27/2010

Back when Congress knew how to pass good legislation, in this case in the mid-1980s, it took most cases involving vaccine liability out of the…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Of Mice and Men and Christine O’Donnell

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/20/2010

A recent exchange between Christine O’Donnell and Bill O’Reilly, with a lack of scientific information on both sides. O’REILLY: Everybody knows that scientists have…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Top Scientist Calls “Scam” Geron Human ESC Experiment

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/14/2010

To much celebration and media play, the first human trial of embryonic stem cells has begun. With a grand total so far of one…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Texting on the Stygian Ferry

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 10/04/2010

“Border collie jill surveying the view from atop the sand dune.” Those were the last words of Malibu plastic surgeon Frank Ryan, best known for…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Science Credibility Flu Away – At Least in Europe

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 09/29/2010

Throughout the phony flu pandemic I warned that health officials would lose credibility because basically everything they were telling us was false and, unlike…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

California’s Insane Global Warming Initiative

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 09/16/2010

What state ranks third in unemployment, second in foreclosures, has the nation’s worst credit rating, is running a $19 billion deficit — yet insists on…

Energy and Environment

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Medicare Proposal Could be a Real Killer

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 08/26/2010

Medicare is speeding toward insolvency , and only major fundamental changes can save it. But beware the “tweakers” — those who say that little things…

Healthcare

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Fumento on Neil Cavuto tonight on Toyota

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 08/05/2010

I’m scheduled to be the lead guest on Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Channel at 6pm tonight. Subject: The news that NHTSA is withholding…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

A tort reform advocate’s dream, my article in Forbes.com

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 07/29/2010

It’s a tort reform advocate’s dream–meaning a defendant’s worst nightmare. As I write in my Forbes.com article, “California Trial Lawyers Find A Geezer Goldmine,”…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

Phony “Toyota deaths database.” My article in Forbes magazine

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 07/21/2010

In the Toyota witch hunt, nothing has been more damning than those deaths we’re told Toyota sudden acceleration “allegedly caused” or, depending on whom you…

Regulatory Reform

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No, NHTSA didn’t blame all Toyota’s troubles on driver error

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 07/16/2010

I can’t count how many people sent me items about how NHTSA says the whole Toyota Tempest has now been determined by the government to…

Regulatory Reform

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“Cell Phone Fear in San Francisco,” my article in Forbes.com

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 07/07/2010

The king is dead. More accurately, Larry King is hanging up his suspenders after 25 years on TV interviewing essentially everybody who was anybody. His…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Automakers’ new problems – vampires and bears

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 07/07/2010

Toyota complaints keep pouring in to the National Highway Safety Administration, and some are pretty darned bizarre. But most are less so than a Colorado…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

My article: “Purveying Pig Flu Panic at the Post”

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 06/14/2010

“Panic is what we want,” Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum wrote last May of swine flu. “Panic is good,” she said, also labeling the disease…

Consumer Well-Being

Blog

“‘Denialism’ has no place in scientific debate,” my letter in Nature Medicine

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 06/11/2010

The key sentence in the letter is this, “‘Denialist’ is an ad hominem argument, the meaning of which is defined entirely by the user,…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Obama exploits oil spill to boost support for climate bill

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 06/03/2010

“President Obama tried Wednesday to channel public outrage about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill into support for a climate-change bill, seeking to redefine an…

Energy and Environment

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Sudden Acceleration in Media Falsehoods Regarding Toyota

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 05/27/2010

“Now that the dust has begun to settle on Toyota’s recall fiasco, it’s being made clear that the toll on human life was greater than…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

“No More Crying ’Spanish Flu’,” my article in Forbes

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 05/21/2010

What’s that? Your throat feels sore? You’re sniffling and sneezing? Bit achy? IT’S THE RETURN OF THE SPANISH FLU! Okay, that’s satire–but not by much.

Consumer Well-Being

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Kellogg’s Flaky Reasoning (the foundation)

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 05/12/2010

A year ago both the WHO and the UN warned that swine flu, which at the time had killed a grand total of…

Blog

The Toyota Hobgoblin, my piece in today’s Philly Inquirer

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 05/10/2010

‘The whole aim of practical politics,” wrote H.L. Mencken, “is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

The NEW reason for fomenting pig flu panic – “Use up those vaccines!”

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 05/04/2010

According to Reuters, the U.S. has 71 million unused H1N1 swine flu vaccine doses. And damned if it isn’t determined to use up every…

Consumer Well-Being

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Waxman baseball tobacco ban not worth chewing on

  • By: Michael Fumento
  • 04/23/2010

Major League Baseball should ban players from using smokeless tobacco in dugouts and on the field because of its health risks and influence on kids,…

Consumer Freedom

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