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A Thumb on the Scale for Wegovy
The Biden administration announced one more bit of executive overreach on its way out the door. On Nov. 26, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
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Evaluating Telehealth
Executive Summary Why Did We Write This Report Telehealth—the use of remote audio and/or video technologies to provide health care services—has been promoted as…
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Report: Telehealth flexibility deadline looms, but Congress needs better information to decide
Congress is poised to consider proposals that permanently or temporarily extend flexibilities for telehealth services enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic that are set to expire…
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Data Mismanagement
Members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat, now say that Sarbanes-Oxley can be unduly burdensome on business. The law that, in…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Student groups poke fun at the global warming alarmism of Al Gore’s new documentary…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Mobile and Internet telephone bills are expected to rise under a…
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Does Al Gore Need to Go on an Energy Diet?
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Letter to Congress in Support of Sugar Reform Amendment
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Congress entertains a call for a special tax deduction to counterbalance…
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS A House committee approves changes to federal fuel economy standards.
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New Era, or ‘Ancien Régime,’ for European Biotech?
The long-awaited World Trade Organization (WTO) decision on biotech food is due to be released this spring, but a leaked copy of the…
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Animal Rights, Human Wrongs
Animal rights extremists—whom the FBI has labeled America’s biggest domestic terrorism threat—have encountered a number of serious reverses recently. These reverses are a great victory…
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CEI Planet: March – April 2006
Full Document Available in PDF New Era, or ‘Ancien Régime,’…
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Corporate McSocial Responsibility
Fast-food gadfly Eric Schlosser has a new book out. Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food is Fast…
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Bad Bugs, Few Drugs
During the late 1960's, my college roommate suffered a seemingly minor skin infection on a finger, which quickly turned into blood poisoning and…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Sirius Satellite Radio reports a big loss despite the much-celebrated addition of Howard…
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Issues in the News 1. SAFETY State attorneys general sue the Bush administration over enforcement of fuel economy regulations.
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President Bush’s Call For Higher Fuel Economy Standards–A Lethal Regulatory Fix
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, DC, April 28, 2006—The Competitive Enterprise Institute today called President Bush’s request for higher fuel…
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Issues in the News 1. SAFETY President Bush seeks to raise federal fuel economy regulations for passenger cars.
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT President Bush requests $2.2 billion in new funding for repair of levees in…
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A Bird Flu Manhattan Project?
Vaccination to prevent viral and bacterial diseases is modern medicine's most cost-effective intervention. Vaccines to prevent the expected avian flu pandemic could save…
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‘Deadly Overcaution’ Biggest Danger to Public Health, Despite New Study on FDA
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Issues in the News 1. SCIENCE Al Gore’s global warming movie prepares to hit theaters. CEI Expert Available…
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Animal Rights, Human Wrongs
Animal rights extremism—which the FBI has labeled the biggest domestic terrorism threat—has encountered a number of serious reverses recently. These reverses are a…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington State and meets with Microsoft…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL Payments from tobacco companies to states are found to have been diverted away…
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1. TELEVISION TV networks challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s indecency fines in court. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for…
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Issues in the News 1. FINANCE An adviser to the Securities and Exchange Commission suggests that the SEC will be receptive…
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Twenty Years After Chernobyl
April 26 marks the 20th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Anti-nuclear activists are still trying to turn Chernobyl into…
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States Blow Tobacco Funds on Budget Smorgasbord
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States Blow Tobacco Funds on Budget Smorgasbord
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Unholy Alliance
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The UN vs. Technology
With diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS ravaging the world's poor—and perhaps a flu pandemic in the offing—the United Nations'…
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Issues in the News 1. SCIENCE The Food and Drug Administration plans to investigate the alleged link between cell phone use…
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Top Ten Junk Science Stories of the Past Decade
My web site JunkScience.com celebrated its 10th anniversary on April 1, 2006. To mark the event, this column spotlights…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH A New Jersey jury awards $4.5 million in a lawsuit against Merck & Co. involving…
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1. BUSINESS Wal-Mart announces a new initiative to revitalize struggling urban neighborhoods. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst…
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New fuel standards unnecessary
Once again, the government has issued what it claims is a “win-win” fuel economy mandate— yes, it will raise the prices of new SUVs and…
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The U.N.’s Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management Program
Full Document Available in PDF In February 2006, at…
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Waiting to Inhale: ‘Thank You for Smoking’
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Few industries are more demonized than Big Tobacco. From…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez announces the creation of a new center for…
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Politics Nixed In Cancer Stick Flick
When Christopher Buckley’s novel Thank You for Smoking came out in 1994 it was a surprising satire of the vilification of the tobacco…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH The United Nations marks the importance of clean drinking water in the developing world with…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Ethanol producers could face problems during the summer driving season when demand is expected to…
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New Drug Demagoguery
“New Drugs Hit the Market, but Promised Trials Go Undone” and “FDA: Drug Companies Drop Ball on Studies,” the headlines blared.
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Issues in the News 1. CONGRESS The Senate passes a budget resolution which includes provisions allowing oil and gas exploration in…
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Wi-fi? Why Not?
Walking around a corner, one never knows what will appear. Yet in order to move forward, it’s often necessary to turn corners anyway,…
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Issues in the News 1. FINANCE The Securities and Exchange Commission may ease corporate accounting regulations on small public…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Many of the hurricane-damaged energy facilities in the Gulf Coast are still offline. CEI…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL Congress considers the question of what can be done with copyrighted material whose owner cannot…
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EPA Whips Up Air Pollution Scare
The air pollution scare industry is at it again — in a very timely manner to help the Environmental Protection Agency impose more dubious…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS AT&T announces a merger with BellSouth, pending approval by the FCC and U.S. Justice Department.
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Patients vs. Paternalism
Decisions about drug safety and efficacy are far from easy. Tysabri, a multiple sclerosis (MS) drug that was voluntarily withdrawn from the market last year…
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Issues in the News 1. SCIENCE A new study predicts half of all children in North and South America will be…
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No Beef in Meat Packaging Controversy
Yet another potential food scare is being manufactured out of thin air — or rather out of carbon monoxide. Last November, with little fanfare,…
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The Lancet Pricks Itself
The term “medical journals” elicits automatic respect from most people. Not from me: I read them. I've found the editors to be increasingly…
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Issues in the News 1. SAFETY Congress considers legislation to standardize food labeling and safety warnings. CEI Expert…
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WTO and Biotech Food: Who Really Won?
The long-awaited World Trade Organization decision on biotechnology applied to agricultural products, finally released earlier this month, elicited a great deal of buzz…
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Issues in the News 1. FINANCE A new report finds executives at mortgage lender Fannie Mae responsible for an…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Three major oil companies prepare to open a major new natural gas pipeline…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL McDonald’s french fries are attacked for containing traces of wheat and dairy products. CEI…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH The EPA tells people not to throw out their Teflon cookware CEI Expert Available to…
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In the Interests of Stakeholders… and Steakholders
There was good news last month on both sides of our northern border: In response to confirmation of an isolated case of bovine…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Paramount Pictures agrees to distribute a documentary on global warming starring former Vice President…
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Issues in the News 1. BUDGET President Bush’s proposed federal budget attracts an array of critics. CEI Expert Available to Comment:…
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Issues in the News 1. HURRICANE KATRINA The House of Representatives finds failures in the response to Hurricane Katrina at all levels…
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Low-Fat Diet Myth Busted
The widely-believed notion that low-fat diets are good for your health went “poof” this week—although the busting of that myth shouldn’t be news to…
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Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS A Verizon Communications executive blasts Google for freeloading on Verizon infrastructure as Congress prepares to debate…
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Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS AOL and Yahoo announce plans to charge to send certified email, fueling the debate…
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Three Cheers for WTO Decision on Biotech Food
What do an <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Iowa corn grower, a Thai rice farmer, and a Dutch grocery shopper have…
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CEI Praises Major WTO Decision on Biotech Food
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin calls for the temporary shutdown…
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We Have It Coming
Americans are about to learn the hard way about the unintended consequences of over-regulation and flawed policy initiatives. Vaccination to prevent viral and bacterial…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Jury selection begins today in the trial of former Enron executives Kenneth…
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Letter to EPA on Human Volunteer Pesticide Testing
Full Document Available in PDF The use of human volunteers in research studies…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY A miner who survived an explosion at the Sago coal mine in West…
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FDA May Make Breathing Difficult for Asthmatics
The government may tell asthmatics to “take a hit” for the environment. But that “hit” won't be from their inhalers, which might be taken…
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EPA Makes Right Decision on Use of Human Volunteers in Pesticide Safety Studies
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET A major computer hacker pleads guilty in federal court to hijacking hundreds of thousands of…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The Food and Drug Administration approves fat-blocking drug Xenical for over-the-counter sales.
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How Roe Destroyed Privacy
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The World Health Organization raises concerns about resistance to a key…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The Food and Drug Administration announces new guidelines for prescription drug…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY International leaders warn that the world is not ready to confront a possible…
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PETA: Cruel and Unusual
The FBI recently declared environmental and animal rights extremism its top domestic terrorism priority. The bureau is currently investigating over 150 cases of…
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Some Hard Truths About Bird Flu
The issues surrounding the possibility of a pandemic of the H5N1 strain of avian flu are extraordinarily complex, encompassing medicine, epidemiology, virology and even…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS The Maryland legislature moves to require Wal-Mart to spend more on employee health…
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Plants Bad for the Environment? Celebrities Causing Frogs to Croak?
Could it be that celebrities are planting the forests that are causing the global warming that is growing the bacteria that are wiping out the…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH & SAFETY The EPA proposes to change the standard for testing gas mileage…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Google’s new video service raises questions about copyright protection technology. CEI Expert Available for…
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Fill the Moat, Lower the Portcullis
The issues surrounding the possibility of a pandemic of the H5N1 strain of avian flu are extraordinarily complex, encompassing aspects of medicine, epidemiology,…
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Flu pandemic prevention
This month's outbreak of H5N1 avian flu in Turkey—as many as 50 human cases and several deaths—looks very like what we might see…
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Europe’s Global REACH: Chemical Regulations in Europe Promise Worldwide Costs
This month, the European Parliament voted in favor of a massive new expansion of the European Union's (EU) chemical regulations. Known as REACH—which stands for…
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The Tale of a Medical Device
Senator Hillary Clinton traveled 6,000 miles to dramatize the need for faster medical device approvals. Hard to believe, isn’t it? In fact, Sen. Clinton…
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Millennium Challenged? New Approach to Foreign Aid Threatens to Become More of the Same
Standing alongside U2 lead singer Bono in March 2002, President Bush announced the formation of a “new compact for global development, defined by new accountability.”…
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Cruel and Unusual: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
On January 9, two employees of the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will appear in court to answer felony…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY A conflict between Ukraine and Russia threatens to undermine natural gas supplies to much of…
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Ominous Prospects for Aging
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal described “a growing backlash against the pharmaceutical industry that is already affecting the development and…
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Issues in the News 1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS Technology security firms are warning computer users to beware of a flaw in Microsoft Windows which…