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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Trump’s State of the Union: A closer look at the claims
Last night, President Trump delivered a State of the Union address filled with optimism, applause lines, and bold claims about the country’s direction. There…
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‘Just the beginning of enormous growth’: White House heralds strong jobs report
The Black Chronicle cited CEI’s expert on job growth in healthcare Senior Economist with the Competitive Enterprise Institute Ryan Young also interpreted the siloed…
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FDA’s Moderna decision demonstrates how science and government are incompatible
Last week, the FDA announced that it would not be considering Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine because the control group Moderna used…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 12, 2004
“I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks.” – Joe E. Lewis<?xml:namespace…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 13, 2004
Receipts available as a pdf. Luigi Cornaro was born in 1467 in Padua, Italy and found himself at…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 4, 2004
Receipts available as a pdf. “I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 11, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> “I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate,…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 10, 2004
Receipt available as a pdf. “Once during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 9, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Vegetarian: a person who eats no meat, and sometimes no animal products…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 8, 2004
Day 8: Despite the claims of certain food nannies that McDonalds has a uniform menu throughout the country, I have found that this…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 7, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Receipt available as a pdf “So somebody ate at McDonalds…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 5, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Receipts available as a pdf. “A gentleman never…
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DAILY DIARY – DEBUNK THE JUNK, APRIL 6, 2004
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Receipt available as a pdf Day 6: Exhausted. After traveling…
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DAILY DIARY: DEBUNK THE JUNK – APRIL 3, 2004
My academic journey has not been easy. Fortunately, I have always been very inquisitive and love reading so that combination has led me…
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DAILY DIARY – Debunk the Junk Report – APRIL 2, 2004
Receipts available as a pdf. “Even when all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.” – Bertrand…
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Q&A with Roger Bate and Richard Tren
Full Document Available in PDF CEI recently interviewed Dr.
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Q&A With Paul Driessen
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Sympathy for the Mosquito? Anti-Spraying Hysteria Reaches the Absurd
Full Document Available in PDF “Save Our…
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Soso’s receipts
Proof that Soso is adhering to her all McDonald's diet.
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March Edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF “To Panic or Not to Pan? Farmed…
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USDA and the Peterkin Papers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's biotechnology regulations have been a shambles for more than fifteen years. Its compulsory case-by-case review and costly field…
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Why We Need Sound Science Rules
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />United Kingdom, the Sir…
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Frankenfood, Pro and Con
David Bowe writes in “Consumers Love Frankenfood” (editorial feature, Feb. 27) predicts that consumers will make their decision about genetically modified food…
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January-February Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF “The European Constitution Falls Apart,”…
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Creating Cow Concerns Should Make Mad Consumers
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />U.S. consumers are known for their affection for food, so it's a wonder most Americans…
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No, Not the NHS!
Whenever I hear the words “universal health care” — as I did during Sunday night's Democratic debate in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =…
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Technology for Life: How Biotech Will Save Billions from Starvation
Full article available in pdf format Today, most people around the world have access to a greater variety of nutritious…
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“Direct Action” The Tactics of Radical Activism: Part 1, How Environmental Groups Use Violent Tactics to Advance their
Full article available as a pdf. <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />July 8, 2000 –Kwajalein Atoll,…
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GMO Patent Nonsense
One of the most contentious issues in the debate over GM crops and foods is the existence of intellectual property protection and patents…
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Europe’s Dangerous Over-Precaution
European Union (EU) officials are deliberating on whether to apply the “precautionary principle” to nearly all chemicals in commerce within the EU—a move that could…
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December Edition of the Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition:…
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The Cow that Came Home to Roost
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Non-stories are common in the media around the holidays. Last year, we…
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Finding Nemo, Losing Fear
Many thousands of children and their parents were entranced this year by Pixar's excellent movie Finding Nemo, whose combination of inventiveness, comedy, and emotion…
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Patent Nonsense on GMOs Should Be Debunked
It may now seem daring to say, but in a decade's time GM foods are likely to be as widely accepted in kitchens…
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Conko and Prakash Guest Editorial from BioScience News and Advocate
The use of bioengineering technology for the development of new plant varieties has been endorsed by dozens of scientific bodies, has increased crop…
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Eroding U.S. Sovereignty: POPs Implementation
Full article available as pdf. Article appeared originally in December 2003 edition of the Monthly Planet. In…
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October Edition of the Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “On…
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United Nations Day of Shame
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much…
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Vox Populi and Public Policy
“How can you tell whether a whale is a mammal or a fish?” a teacher asks her third-grade class. “Take a vote?” pipes…
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The Poor Suffer as UN Wages War on Science
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much less…
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Genetically Modified Foods Are Nothing New
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Children as Policy Pawns
Americans take nothing as seriously as the need to protect the health and safety of our children. Public concern about environmental harms has intensified…
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CEI Does Cancún
From September 10 through September 14, the World Trade Organization will hold its fifth Ministerial meeting in Cancún, Mexico. The Competitive Enterprise Institute will be…
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Anti-Globalization Movement in Retreat in Cancún
The Anti-Globalization Movement is in retreat at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Ministerial meeting; and advocates of open trade now have an opportunity to make…
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Mientras manifestantes oponen la biotecnología, cuatro organizaciones donan dos toneladas de comidas a un pueblo en México
Cancún, México, Septiembre 11, 2003—Mientras manifestantes alrededor de la reunión de ministros de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) en Cancún, México protestan…
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‘I’m Mo Green!’
CANCUN, Mexico — “I’m Mo Green!” bellowed the casino owner, suggesting that his uninvited but insistent suitor Michael Corleone appreciate their relative stations in the…
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As Protestors Debate Biotechnology, Four U.S. Groups Donate Two Tons of Food to Mexican Village
Cancún, Mexico, September 11, 2003—While demonstrators at the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancún, Mexico continue to protest the trade discussions, four U.S.
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Precaution without Principle
The European Parliament voted earlier this summer to change the way it regulates gene-splicing, or genetic modification (GM) technology, possibly opening the way…
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World Focus on Trade Debate in Cancún
The Fifth World Trade Organization Ministerial meeting in Cancún, Mexico will begin this week, with tens of thousands of official delegates, non-profit representatives, and activists…
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September Edition of Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The…
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EU Over-REACH
The latest mutation of the Precautionary Principle–which would heavily regulate, if not prohibit, any product, technology or activity that is in any way incomplete–is…
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Europe’s REACH Exceeds Its Scientific Grasp
European regulatory officials have raised hostility to technological innovation to an art form. Their current medium of choice is the Precautionary Principle, which holds…
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Stockholm Syndrome
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is a United Nations Environment Programme Convention, which bans or regulates industrial chemicals and pesticides. The…
