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The Future’s Electric: Beware Bad Energy Policy.
Whenever I needed to buy an obscure book as a student at the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Newcastle Royal Grammar School…
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Pots and Kettles
“The Administration's political interference with science has led to misleading statements by the President, inaccurate responses to Congress, altered web sites, suppressed agency…
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Time to Put Auntie Beeb Out to Grass
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Analysis: Running Out of Energy
Last week saw some extraordinary scenes in the Senate as this year's energy bill died, only for last year's bill to rise, vampire-like,…
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Pollsters: A New Danger in Baghdad
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Recent Research Suggests…
There has been a great deal of ballyhoo this week over the decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to require food products…
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Taxing Times in California: The Depths to which his California has Fallen.
Stories of taxpayer abuse at the hands of the IRS were once so common as to be cliché, but Gil Hyatt recently discovered that…
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How to Cripple an Economy
Energy, as the late Julian Simon said, is the “master resource.” It enables virtually all the activities that make modern life possible. It…
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Tackling Junk Science
Environmental activists and their allies in the media, like The New York Times, are up in arms over the Bush Administration’s latest outbreak of good…
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Junking Junk Science
The term “junk science” has been one of the most powerful tools in ensuring that political and legal decisions are taken based on…
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Wish Fulfillment: The EU Constitution Lays Down NGOs’ Ideals in Stone
When former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing was first minted as President of the European Constitutional Convention, he suggested that he might be <?xml:namespace…
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
The British newspaper The Independent warns us of a serious threat to our aesthetic appreciation of the world. “Global warming may…
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Analysis: Two worlds
We live in a divided world. The division, however, is not between north and south, East and West or First World and Third World…
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Consensus Cons
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> It is a regrettable fact that most of the public is ignorant about science—not…
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Mad-Cow Madness: What We Now Know about Mad-Cow Disease Shows the Folly of Excessive Precaution
When Oprah Winfrey stated on her show in 1996 that she'd never eat another hamburger, she was reacting to the remarks of Humane Society…
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Who Killed Kyoto?
We've heard it now for so long that it's drummed into our heads. President George W. Bush soured relations with the EU by refusing…