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Lives for Votes

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 12/14/2005

December 15, 2005 — With his record, a call from state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is enough to give even innocent defendants…

Business and Government

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More Crop for the Drop

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 08/17/2005

The worst East Central U.S. drought in almost 20 years is decimating harvests of corn and soybeans, threatening farmers’ economic survival and disrupting commercial shipping…

Health and Safety

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The UN at 60, by Henry Miller and Gregory Conko

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 07/05/2005

The United Nations, now celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of its charter, is not aging well. Its officials are being accused…

Health and Safety

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The UN’s Silent Scandal, by Henry Miller and Gregory Conko

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 06/29/2005

The United Nations is being accused of all manner of criminality and corruption these days, ranging from sexual assaults by peacekeepers in <?xml:namespace…

Energy and Environment

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If Wishes Were Horses, This Would Be the Kentucky Derby

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 05/17/2005

GENEVA, Switzerland—The 58th World Health Assembly (the World Health Organization's policy-making body) under way here brings to mind the cliché about the contestants…

Business and Government

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Misnamed Activists Are Thorns In Rose Of Agbiotech Foods

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 03/03/2005

In a spin-dominated world where activists claim—often on the flimsiest of data—that this, that or the other thing causes cancer or threatens the…

Business and Government

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Travesties of Regulation: Harmful U.N. policies.

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 02/14/2005

Former Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker, who heads the inquiry into corruption in the United Nations' defunct oil-for-food program, has just issued…

Energy and Environment

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Making the Desert Bloom

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 11/17/2004

There is big news from the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Middle East that is unusual in several ways: It's positive,…

Health and Safety

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The Toxic Politics of Biotech

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 10/06/2004

How far does grass pollen travel?  Ask someone who has hay fever, and the response is likely to be “much too far.”  But…

Medicines and Medical Devices

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More Crop for the Drop

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 10/06/2004

Your morning espresso at Starbucks will soon be more expensive.  Unless, that is, they find a way to make it without water or coffee, both…

Health and Safety

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Taking the Scare Out of Biotech Crops

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 09/15/2004

In the late 1990s, political scientist Gregory Conko had been studying food and pharmaceutical regulation as a fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…

Medicines and Medical Devices

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EU Is out of Step over Regulation of Modified Products

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 05/24/2004

Sir, The premise of Steven Druker’s rant that the US criticises Europe’s application of the precautionary principle yet uses it itself (“America’s hypocrisy over modified…

Health and Safety

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“I Love Humanity; It’s People I Can’t Stand”

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 05/05/2004

This is part 2 of a two-part series. To read part 1, please click here.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…

Medicines and Medical Devices

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Biotech’s Antagonists

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 05/04/2004

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Health and Safety

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Commentary: Europe’s Ban on GMOs Is Still Firmly In Place

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 04/19/2004

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> There is an old saying among political veterans in <?xml:namespace prefix =…

Health and Safety

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The Rocky Road to Biotech’s Success

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 04/15/2004

The first Earth Day celebration, conceived by then-US Senator Gaylord Nelson, was held in 1970 as a “symbol of environmental responsibility and stewardship.” In the spirit…

Medicines and Medical Devices

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Frankenfood, Pro and Con

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 03/22/2004

David Bowe writes in “Consumers Love Frankenfood” (editorial feature, Feb. 27) predicts that consumers will make their decision about genetically modified food…

Lands and Wildlife

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Creating Cow Concerns Should Make Mad Consumers

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 02/26/2004

<?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…

Health and Safety

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Technology for Life: How Biotech Will Save Billions from Starvation

  • By: C.S. Prakash, Gregory Conko
  • 02/04/2004

Full article available in pdf format Today, most people around the world have access to a greater variety of nutritious…

Energy and Environment

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Even Trade Politics Can Be Local

  • By: Barbara Rippel, Gregory Conko
  • 01/28/2004

Mark Vaile, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Australia's trade minister, is in town this week asking an uncomfortable question: “Will the…

Antitrust

Op-Eds

GMO Patent Nonsense

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 01/26/2004

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over GM crops and foods is the existence of intellectual property protection and patents…

Medicines and Medical Devices

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Patent Nonsense on GMOs Should Be Debunked

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 12/21/2003

It may now seem daring to say, but in a decade's time GM foods are likely to be as widely accepted in kitchens…

Health and Safety

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Conko and Prakash Guest Editorial from BioScience News and Advocate

  • By: C.S. Prakash, Gregory Conko
  • 12/14/2003

The use of bioengineering technology for the development of new plant varieties has been endorsed by dozens of scientific bodies, has increased crop…

Health and Safety

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United Nations Day of Shame

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 10/24/2003

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much…

Medicines and Medical Devices

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The Poor Suffer as UN Wages War on Science

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 10/06/2003

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…

Health and Safety

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Genetically Modified Foods Are Nothing New

  • By: Dr. C.S. Prakash, Gregory Conko
  • 10/06/2003

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Medicines and Medical Devices

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Children as Policy Pawns

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 10/05/2003

Americans take nothing as seriously as the need to protect the health and safety of our children.  Public concern about environmental harms has intensified…

Medicines and Medical Devices

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Running Away From Safety

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 09/25/2003

Remember Jim Fixx? Not many people do, and that's a shame. Fixx was a jogging guru who ran 60 miles a week. He…

Business and Government

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Precaution without Principle

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 09/10/2003

The European Parliament voted earlier this summer to change the way it regulates gene-splicing, or genetic modification (GM) technology, possibly opening the way…

Health and Safety

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Brussels’ Bad Science Will Cost the World Dear

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 08/16/2003

Regulatory officials in the European Union seem to be ignorant of the rule of holes: when you are in one, stop digging. Numerous analyses…

Health and Safety

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Los Beneficios de la Biotecnologa

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 08/01/2003

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Medicines and Medical Devices

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The Benefits of Biotech

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 08/01/2003

Click pdf link above for full text of article   Ever since the publication of Rachel Carson’s…

Medicines and Medical Devices

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Biotech Woes…and the Culprits

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 06/24/2003

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America learned long ago that what's good for General Motors isn't necessarily good for the country.

Health and Safety

Op-Eds

Biotech and Baby Food

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 06/05/2003

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Warnings about one societal danger or another often portray children as the likeliest or…

Health and Safety

Op-Eds

The EU’s Anti-Biotech Protectionist Weapon (Letter to the Editor)

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 06/03/2003

  America’s challenge to EU policies toward agricultural and food biotechnology is far more complex and subtle than is conveyed by U.S. Trade Representative Robert…

Health and Safety

Op-Eds

Time for the GM Moratorium to Go

  • By: Dr. C.S. Prakash, Gregory Conko
  • 05/13/2003

After months of anticipation, the U.S. government is expected to file a formal complaint today with the World Trade Organization against the European Union’s five-year…

Energy and Environment

Op-Eds

New Challenges, New Failures: The U.N.

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 04/11/2003

  The way in which scientific endeavors are pursued globally is marked by clear inequalities, said United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in a recent…

Health and Safety

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Measure 27 Clouds Otherwise Clear Choices

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 10/01/2002

Full Policy Brief Available In PDF Format Summary Picture yourself in a grocery store.

Health and Safety

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GM In Perspective

  • By: Dr. C.S. Prakash, Gregory Conko
  • 09/16/2002

View the full Spiked debate forum on GM crops. 'If the field trials are allowed to progress unmolested, Britons…

Energy and Environment

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Europe’s Forgotten Promise

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 08/27/2002

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…

Health and Safety

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Precautionary Principle May Do More Harm Than Good

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 08/26/2002

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,…

Health and Safety

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EU Ratifies Biosafety Protocol

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 08/01/2002

The European Union took yet another step away from the rational regulation of genetically modified crop plants and foods in late June, when it…

Energy and Environment

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Science vs. Presumption In Assessing Risk

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 08/01/2002

Full Chapter Available in PDF Format On September 22, 2000, California Governor Gray Davis signed into…

Energy and Environment

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European move will stifle GMOs

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 07/08/2002

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…

Energy and Environment

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Blessed Are The Poor With Spirit

  • By: Dr. C.S. Prakash, Gregory Conko
  • 06/25/2002

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…

Health and Safety

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Biotech Critics Find A Little Goes A Long Way

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 06/23/2002

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…

Energy and Environment

Op-Eds

Want to Avoid GM Foods? This Regulation Won’t Help

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 06/05/2002

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…

Health and Safety

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Battling Hunger With Biotechnology

  • By: Dr. C.S. Prakash, Gregory Conko
  • 05/01/2002

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…

Energy and Environment

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Precaution (Of A Sort) Without Principle

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 10/31/2001

Miller and Conko Article in Priorities For Health: Volume 13, Number 3 Published by The American Council…

Energy and Environment

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Dangerous GM Gets Off Scot-Free

  • By: Gregory Conko, Henry I. Miller
  • 08/01/2001

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Medicines and Medical Devices

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