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Prometheus bound
Source: Regulation magazine
Author: Fred L. Smith Jr.
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States

For every technological breakthrough, there's a politician expressing "concern," ready and willing to pass some new "safety measure." This article tells us why we shouldn't let them. (08/97)

Crop busters
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Country: United States

"Self-righteous vandals lead a desperate, ill-informed campaign against genetically modified foods." (12/17/99)

Biotech food fights may be over soon as facts frustrate fearmongers' case
Source: Investor's Business Daily
Author: Michael Fumento
Country: United States

The case against bio-engineered foods is crumbling in the face of evidence that such products are safe and beneficial. (3/14/00)

Study eases gene-altered corn fears
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Country: United States

Researchers say that, contrary to earlier claims, there is no evidence that Monarch butterflies are harmed by corn modified to resist pests. (11/4/99)

Why Europe fears biotech food
Source: Wall Street Journal
Author: Michael Fumento
Country: United States

Europeans' cultural conservatism, anti-Americanism, and affection for inefficient, subsidized agriculture contribute to their skepticism of biotech food products. (3/14/00)

Assessing public health risks
Source: Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Newsletter
Author: Dr. Jane M. Orient
Country: United States
E-mail: ddp@free-market.net

This is a handy little guide to important questions to ask when evaluating such public-health matters as, "How much Alar should be allowed on an apple?" and "How safe is a peanut butter sandwich?" Orient emphasizes the importance of weighing costs and benefits of legal action as well as comparing the supposedly dangerous chemical or practice with the available alternatives.

Those who want GM-free food should pay
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

"Instead of labeling food products that contain genetically-modified ingredients -- which would be costly and confusing -- why not label as 'GM free' foods that have no GM elements. That way, say analysts, the cost of testing, monitoring and segregating non-GM foods would be borne by those consumers willing to pay a premium for that assurance, rather than all consumers." (01/22/01)

An environmentalist debunks the litany
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

"A litany of unfounded statements made by such environmental organizations as Worldwatch Institute, the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace are the target of Bjorn Lomborg, author of 'The Skeptical Environmentalist' (Cambridge University Press, September 2001). Lomborg dissects and refutes the gloomy prognostications put out by such groups -- which he refers to as the 'Litany.'" (08/08/01)

Rumor mongers
Source: Reason
Author: Virginia Postrel
Country: United States

Luddite fanatics and "neutral" technocrats have joined forces to wage anti-technology smear campaigns. (02/99)

Scientific Stalinism
Source: Civil Liberties
Author: J.D. Tuccille
Country: United States

Modern Luddites want to fend off the dangers of scientific research with totalitarian controls. (04/10/00)

Joy, to the world
Source: Reason
Author: Virginia Postrel
Country: United States

Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun Microsystems, captured headlines with his totalitarian call "to limit development of the technologies that are too dangerous, by limiting our pursuit of certain kinds of knowledge." (06/00)

'Environmental' ills often psychosomatic
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

"Most patients with symptoms they attribute to environmental pollutants actually have psychological problems, according to a recent German study. Studies in Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom have reached the same conclusion." (10/16/01)

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