The Open Market Blog

• By: Gregory Conko
• 08/25/2008

It’s no surprise to many readers of this page, but governments in North America and Europe often funnel millions of dollars to activist groups that…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 08/13/2008

CEI has just published a new OnPoint, which I co-wrote with West Virginia physician Jerry Arnett. The paper, “FDA’s Bad Medicine: How the Dispersed…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/28/2008

Courtesy of Todd Zywicki at the Volokh Conspiracy, I’ve just learned that President Bush will be appointing William Kovacic to chair the…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/26/2008

Courtesy of Ivan, I’ve been directed to this press release from the Weston A. Price Foundation decrying a U.S. FDA and California Department of…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 11/08/2007

Tyler Cowan offers some generally positive thoughts on former Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s new book, Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 10/29/2007

So far as I can tell, it’s gotten no attention whatsoever, but today is the 25th Anniversary of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 10/29/2007

The Italian language version of my book, The Frankenfood Myth, co-written with CEI adjunct scholar and Hoover Institution fellow Henry I. Miller, was…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 10/10/2007

Lots of good commentary in today’s newspapers. In the Financial Times, Columbia University economist (and Friend of CEI) Jagdish Bhagwati notes that rumors of…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 09/26/2007

The Supreme Court decided yesterday to grant cert in a pharmaceutical products liability case to determine whether federal regulation of pharmaceuticals preempts state tort…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 07/26/2007

Molecular Biologist Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., was one of the most fascinating men I have ever had the pleasure to know. So, it was…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/09/2007

By now, approximately one million people have asked me, “So, have you seen those news reports that organic food is causing a rise in food…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/09/2007

The Nationl People’s Public Radio show “Few All Things Considered” had an interesting segment on daylight savings time last night. As readers should know,…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/02/2007

Last summer’s outbreak of E. coli contamination in packaged spinach that killed at least three people and sickened more than 200 others has now…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 02/28/2007

Yesterday’s New York Times reports on a new study published in the Lancet, which questions those who advise pregnant women to cut back…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 02/20/2007

For years, we at CEI have warned that the European Union was using multilateral environmental agreements not just to defend its trade-obstructing precautionary regulation from…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 02/06/2007

Sure, everyone’s heard that a US Department of Agriculture regulation governs the size of the holes in Swiss Cheese. But, did…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 01/22/2007

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a feature (link here for subscribers) article discussing DuPont’s renewed efforts on crop biotechnology. DuPont “announced…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 01/19/2007

Last year, global biotech crop acreage increased more than 13 percent from 2005. By year-end 2006, 10.3 million farmers in 22 countries were growing biotech…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 10/17/2006

A couple of months back, US Congressman Patrick Kennedy drove his car into a security barricade near the Capitol building early one Thursday…