For over three decades, CEI has advocated health care reforms that put more power in the hands of consumers to choose their health providers, treatment protocols, and scope of insurance coverage. We have advocated reform of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug and device approval process to allow for greater flexibility and patient choice. And in 2013, CEI organized the court challenges to Obamacare’s exchange subsidies that concluded with the Supreme Court’s King v. Burwell decision.
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What Trump’s vaccine executive order actually does
Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order directing federal health agencies to revise childhood vaccine recommendations, reducing the number of vaccines recommended for…
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Trump administration decision highlights disastrous Part D redesign
The Trump administration recently announced the end of a demonstration project that was pulled together by the Biden administration as the Inflation Reduction…
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Fauci’s lasting legacy will be the damage he did to science and government
Anthony Fauci isn’t faring well in the court of public opinion. His recently divulged “diary” and subsequent July 29 appearance before the Senate Homeland…
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New Challenges, New Failures: The U.N.
The way in which scientific endeavors are pursued globally is marked by clear inequalities, said United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in a recent…
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Federal Auto Regulations Getting Deadlier
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., April 2, 2003—New federal fuel economy rules announced yesterday will make Americans less safe…
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Pediatric drug testing may be unhealthy
Even by Capitol Hill’s standards, last Tuesday’s press conference was an exceptionally self-congratulatory event. The occasion was the unveiling of the Pediatric Research Equity…
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Pediatric Drug Testing Bill Could Prove Unhealthy
Washington, D.C., March 17, 2003—A controversial pediatric drug-testing bill will be unveiled at a Senate news conference tomorrow, but according to a…
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February Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition:…
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Pediatric Drug Testing Bill Could Endanger Lives
Washington, D.C., February 26, 2003—A controversial pediatric drug-testing bill will soon be introduced in the Senate, but according to a public interest…
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New Federal Rule on Alcohol Ads and Public Health
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., February 28, 2003—Today the U.S. Treasury’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (formerly…
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East Coast Snowstorm Shows Usefulness Of SUVs
Washington, D.C., February 20, 2003—Instead of being attacked for their vehicles, SUV owners this week heard only calls for help. From Virginia…
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Boost Your Environmental IQ Online
Washington, D.C., February 7, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is launching a new online feature, the "e-class" quiz, this week. The quiz, developed by CEI’s…
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Senators Introduce Deadly New Proposal
Washington, D.C., January 30, 2003 — Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) today proposed increasing the severity of one of the…
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Success Of New Book Shows: Many Americans Don’t Believe Gloom And Doom Theories
Washington, D.C., January 14, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is celebrating the success of its latest book on environmental issues,…
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SUV Owners Under Assault Again
Washington, D.C., January 8, 2003— A new campaign attacking SUVs and linking them to terrorism through our dependence on foreign oil is farcical…
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January Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The Grim Green…
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Environmental, Other Regulations Under Scrutiny
Washington, D.C., December 20, 2002—From energy conservation standards for washing machines to labels on genetically modified food, many federal regulations are coming…
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Deadly Auto Regulations May Get Worse
Washington, D.C., December 12, 2002—The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is today announcing that it will propose an increase in the fuel economy standards…
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November/December 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “FDA’s Pediatric Rule…
Washington Post
Judge Rejects Drug Testing on Children
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West Nile Wakeup Bites
It became common in Washington’s parks during the summer to see mothers rubbing their children’s arms, faces, and legs with wipes pulled from…
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Measure 27 Clouds Otherwise Clear Choices
Full Policy Brief Available In PDF Format Summary Picture yourself in a grocery store.
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Eat, Drink, And Be Merry: Why Mandatory Biotech Food Labeling Is Unnecessary
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To Beat West Nile, Kill The Carrier
It is common in Washington’s parks these days to see mothers rubbing their children’s arms, faces and legs with wipes pulled from brightly…
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GM In Perspective
View the full Spiked debate forum on GM crops. 'If the field trials are allowed to progress unmolested, Britons…
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Europe’s Forgotten Promise
Delegates to this week's World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, will have to confront several stark ironies. Their lavish, $50 million soiree…
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Precautionary Principle May Do More Harm Than Good
Residents of a city facing a permanent threat from earthquakes know how important it is to exercise caution. Thus, it may seem reasonable for city,…
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Hormone Replacement Therapy Truth: It’s Not All Bad
Hormone Replacement Therapy has been all over the news since a recent trial revealed that HRT comes with some significant health risks. The trial,…
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EU Ratifies Biosafety Protocol
The European Union took yet another step away from the rational regulation of genetically modified crop plants and foods in late June, when it…
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Science vs. Presumption In Assessing Risk
Full Chapter Available in PDF Format On September 22, 2000, California Governor Gray Davis signed into…
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European move will stifle GMOs
Regulatory officials in the European Union seem to be ignorant of the Rule of Holes: When you're in a hole, stop digging. Repeated analyzes…
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Blessed Are The Poor With Spirit
This year's UN-sponsored World Food Summit just concluded with a grim reminder that the goal of cutting world hunger in half by 2015 set six…
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Biotech Critics Find A Little Goes A Long Way
In the fictional world of James Bond, the criminal group SPECTRE made a big business out of misusing technology to disrupt commerce, make money, and…
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Are Risk Assessment And The Precautionary Principle Equivalent?
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following paper was prepared for the June 20-21, 2002 International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology workshop on the Precautionary Principle,…
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The Precautionary Principle: Protectionism and Environmental Extremism by Other Means
The Precautionary Principle: Protectionism and Environmental Extremism by Other Means …
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Want to Avoid GM Foods? This Regulation Won’t Help
Yesterday, the European Parliament’s Environment Committee voted to expand the EU’s labelling requirement for Genetically Modified foods. The measure, in the form of…
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Worrying About Frankenstein’s Monster
A specter is haunting Europe—called the “precautionary principle”. As generally defined, the precautionary principle states that a product or technology can be banned even if…
Washington Post
Cancer Doctors on the FDA
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Battling Hunger With Biotechnology
Needless restrictions on agricultural biotechnology would harm the world's ability to battle hunger in the 21st century, say Gregory Conko and C.S. Prakash, co-founders…
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FDA Too Slow to Approve New Medical Drugs and Devices
A new nationwide poll of cancer specialists sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute finds many of them believe the FDA is too slow in approving…
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A National Survey of Oncologists Regarding The Food And Drug Administration
Full Document Available in PDF A National Survey…
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Will California’s Senate Follow Assembly’s Lead And Pass Costly Auto Regulations?
Washington, D.C., April 26, 2002 — The California State Assembly has passed new regulations that could increase the cost of new cars and…
Washington Post
US Backs Pediatric Tests In Reversal on Drug Safety
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FDA Overreaches
Who could possibly oppose a pediatric-testing rule for drugs? For starters, physicians and parents who realize that while this rule is supposed to protect children,…
Washington Post
The Need to Test Drugs on Children
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New York Times Attacks CEI On FDA’s Pediatric Rule
Copyright © 2002 The New York Times <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Bush administration senselessly…
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Food Expert Applauds Science Journal’s Recognition Of Flawed Mexican Corn Study
Washington, D.C., April 4, 2002-The Competitive Enterprise Institute is encouraged by an admission today from the science journal Nature that a controversial article on…
Washington Post
Groups Challenge Ban on Health-Claims Labels
Washington Post
FDA to Suspend Rules for Testing Drugs on Children
USA Today
FDA Says Kids’ Drug Test not Compulsory
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CEI Ad Opposes Robert Redford’s Twisted Logic On Fuel Economy Standards
Full Document Available in PDF Format Summary ROBERT REDFORD,IF YOU’RE GOING TO PUT OUR LIVES AT RISKFOR THE SAKE…
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Robert Redford’s Latest ‘Role’ Misleads Americans About Dangers of Fuel Economy Standards
Washington, DC, March 20, 2002—Robert Redford may have given the most incredible performance of his career when he narrated radio ads recently for…
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New Fuel Economy Ad Campaign Misleading
Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002 — With the future of one of the federal government’s riskier regulations currently being debated in Washington, a…
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CAFE Society
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CAFE’s Yearly Death Toll: State By State
Full Document Available in PDF CAFE’s death toll figures broken down…
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February 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Poised For A Broadband…
USA Today
CAFE Kills Both Jobs and Motorists
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Bailouts: Picking Winners and Losers
Last September, after barely two weeks of debate, Congress enacted legislation to bail out the nation's airlines. Intended to help repair the economic…
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Financial Aid For Airlines Calls For Careful Decision
Last September, after barely two weeks of debate, Congress enacted legislation to bail out the nation's airlines. Intended to help repair the economic…
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Greenpeace on the Defensive
After years of playing offense, Greenpeace is now finding itself on the defensive. In addition to pulling much of the anti-Bush administration propaganda from its…
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WHO Cares? World Health Organization Cares More About Its Own Life Than The Lives Of The Poor
Paul Dietrich was visiting Mozambique’s capital city, Maputo, during its civil war in 1984, when an educational billboard taught him a lesson he never…
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Airport Insecurity
DeLong Op-Ed in National Review Online Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge recently told Chris Matthews that airplane security ultimately depends on the passengers,…
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Uncle Sam’s Vaccines
Miller and Kazman Op-Ed in National Review Online The recent germ-warfare attacks are cause for concern, but so is one proposed government response:…
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Private Sector Is Better At Providing Airline Safety
Today, after weeks of stalemate in Congress, President Bush will sign the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. On the key sticking point, federalization…
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Armed Crews Can Protect Airliners
DeLong Op-Ed in The Providence Journal <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Senate recently passed an airport-security bill that contains…
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Precaution (Of A Sort) Without Principle
Miller and Conko Article in Priorities For Health: Volume 13, Number 3 Published by The American Council…
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Beware “Simple” Solutions
Gattuso Op-Ed In The USA Today<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Everyone agrees that action is needed to improve…
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If Pork Had Wings
Horner Op-Ed in The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> That didn't…
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Fear of Federalizing
Gattuso Op-Ed In The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Less than a month after…
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Is Bailout The Best Remedy?
Gattuso Op-Ed in The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Before the tragedies of Sept.
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A Crashing Failure: The Stupid Tragedy of CAFE
Provided courtesy of www.nationalreview.com/ If the National Academy of Sciences discovered that a certain chemical was killing several…
USA Today
Resort to False Fuel Savings
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Dangerous GM Gets Off Scot-Free
Conko and Miller Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal Europe<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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Life, Liberty, And Cell Phones
From the August 2001 Edition of CEI Update A car speeds down a busy highway, zigzagging unpredictably from lane to…
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Cutting Regulation From the EPA: Gene-splicing Policy Should Be Excised
Miller Op-Ed in The Washington TImes Miller Op-Ed in The Washington Times A persistent criticism of the…
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Plants Are Not Pesticides
Miller Op-Ed in The National Post<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> A New U.S. EPA…
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The Leaked Study on CAFE: Why It Doesn’t Justify Higher Fuel Economy Standards
This past Monday, the New York Times carried a front-page story on the National Academy of Sciences’ auto fuel-economy study.[1] The…
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Massachusetts: Go Slow on Disconnecting Drivers
Gattuso and Rupert Op-Ed in The Lowell Sun<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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CEI Criticizes FDA Delay In Approving New Heart Valve
Washington, DC, July 27, 2001—The Food and Drug Administration acted far too slowly in approving the Omnicarbon heart valve, the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
USA Today
Fatal Mileage Rules
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Federal Court Dismisses Alcohol Advertising Case
Washington, DC, June 26, 2001— A federal district court last week dismissed a challenge to a federal agency’s ban on advertising the medical…
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Public Interest Group Welcomes CDC StarLink Report
Washington, DC, June 14, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute welcomes a report by the Centers for Disease Control that finds…
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Benefits of Moderate Alcohol Consumption to Get Their Day in Court
Washington, DC, June 11, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute and Consumer Alert will present their case for freedom of speech in alcohol labels…
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The Perils Of Precaution
Miller and Conko Article Published In Policy Review<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Environmental and public health activists have clashed with scholars…
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A Real Bill Of Rights For Passengers
Well, the sure signs of summer are upon us once again. The temperature is rising, there are tourists everywhere, and things are slowing down to…
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CEI Weighs In On Drycleaning Zoning Proposal
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> TESTIMONY OF THE COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE…
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CEI Comments Before FDA on Bioengineered Foods
COMMENTS OF THE COMMENTS OF THE COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE TO THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION REGARDING THE…
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Hope, Not Hype, in the Golden Grains
Two years ago, practically no one had ever heard of Ingo Potrykus Two years ago, practically no one had ever heard of…
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Designer Jeans from Designer Genes: Henry Miller National Post Op-Ed
California Gov Published February 12, 2001 The National Post (Canada) Self-styled environmentalists have been virtually unanimous in opposing biotechnology,…
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FDA Fails to Give Olestra Fair Weight: Henry Miller LA Times Op-Ed
Published in the Los Angeles Times Published in the Los Angeles Times February 4, 2001 The sad…
USA Today
Will Last-Minute Flood of FDA Rules Keep New Drugs, Foods off Market?
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Thumbs Down On FDA Rules For Biotech Food
Washington, D.C. January 17, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute issued a strong condemnation of proposed new regulations for genetically-engineered foods released today…
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Organic Food Standards May Violate First Amendment
WASHINGTON, DC December 20, 2000—New standards for organic foods may violate First Amendment free speech rights, the Competitive Enterprise…
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FDA’s Pediatric Rule Challenged in Federal Lawsuit
A physicians’ association and two public interest groups today filed suit in federal court challenging the validity of the Food and Drug Administration’s “Pediatric Rule.”…
USA Today
A Turkey of a Regulation
Corn — or maize as the Indians called it — has always been part of Thanksgiving tradition. But this year, many Americans have found that…
USA Today
Our Phoniest Drug War
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Biotech Food Labeling is Regulatory Overkill: Henry Miller Op-Ed in LA Times
Published in the Los Angeles Times Published in the Los Angeles Times October 27, 2000 Headline: Biotech Food Labeling…
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Cracking Up Over Taco Shells; Why is the EPA Shelling Biotech Food? Henry Miller in Washington Times
Distributed nationally by Copley News Service Published in the Washington Times October 12, 2000 Kraft Foods has…
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A Much Higher Standard for Gene-Spliced Foods: Miller Op-Ed in SD Union-Tribune
Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune October 5, 2000 Headline: A Much Higher…
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If Auto Safety Defects Are Criminalized, Shouldn’t Ralph Nader Be in Jail?
Washington, DC, October 2, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that congressional proposals to criminalize auto safety defects failed to…
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Punish Ford-Firestone, But Don’t Reward NHTSA: Kazman WSJ Op-Ed
Published in the Wall Street Journal September 12, 2000 This year’s worst tire disaster claimed more than 100 lives. It came after scores of documented…
USA Today
Weed Control has Caused Skylark’s Decline (Letter to the Editor)
From Mr Gregory Conko. Sir, Your article “Bird numbers `under threat’ from GM crops” (September 1) reported on a study in the current issue of…
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Effects of GM Confused with Those of Farming Practices: Conko Letter to Financial Times
Published in The Financial Times Published in The Financial Times September 6, 2000, Wednesday London Edition 1 …
