“Who needs the Food and Drug Administration? New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and personal injury lawyers certainly don’t — at least to the extent that the agency gets in the way of their political grandstanding and a multimillion-dollar payday, respectively. This column recently reported on the sad tale of the chemical bisphenol A — that is, how junk science-fueled anti-chemical activists successfully rigged the scientific review process at the federal National Toxicology Program to cast doubt on the safety of BPA, which led to decisions by Wal-Mart and others to stop selling plastic baby bottles made with the chemical.” [editor’s note: The irony here is inescapable, as nanny-stater Schumer blasts a government watchdog agency, while Milloy the free marketeer is forced somehow to defend it, in debunking the “expose” of BPA! - SAT] (05/08/08)