ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Junk Science and Technophobia

Counter to conventional wisdom: In defense of DDT and against chemophobia
Source: University of Houston Rockwell Lecture Series
Author: Thomas R. DeGregori
Country: United States

Dr. DeGregori, in a recent contribution to the Rockwell Lecture series, explains the not-so-healthy alternative to a world without pesticides. (9/26/99)

The truth about light trucks
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Douglas Coate and James VanderHoff
Country: United States

"It's conventional wisdom that the increasing number of SUVs and light trucks on America's roads has led to more traffic fatalities, but a new study ... explains that SUVs have actually made America's roads safer." Adobe PDF format. (04/01)

The fear profiteers: do socially responsible businesses sow health scares to reap monetary awards?
Source: NoMoreScares.com
Author: Staff article
Country: United States
E-mail: webmaster@nomorescares.com

"So-called 'socially responsible' businesses make money by launching irresponsible and groundless health scares," says this report. "Authored by a distinguished group of experts, it describes a number of major health scares of the last decade and links them to Fenton Communications - public relations business that, along with its clients, makes money by alarming the public." (06/21/00)

Precautionary principle stalls advances in food technology
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Gregory Conko and Henry Miller
Country: United States

"...the precautionary principle overlooks the possibility that real public health risks can be associated with [expending resources on] eliminating minuscule, hypothetical risks." -- Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health. (6/1/00)

NEWS FLASH: Fat people are unhealthy!
Source: Rand Corp.
City: Santa Monica, State: CA, Country: United States

Under the "DUH" heading: A Rand Corporation study just released has found that obesity is associated with higher rates of chronic medical conditions and with worse physical health-related quality of life than are lifetime smoking, problem drinking or poverty. The study is published in the current issue of "Public Health," a British journal. (06/07/01)

Precaution (of a sort) without principle
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Gregory Conko and Henry I. Miller
Country: United States
E-mail: gconko@cei.org

"It used to be said that the most fearsome statement in the world is: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.' An apt variation of that theme would relate to governmental use of the so-called precautionary principle to reduce the risks of technology." (11/01/01)

The anti-energy litigation of the state attorneys general
Source: CEI
Author: Marlo Lewis Jr.
Country: United States

Study challenging the arguments of several state attorneys general that have sued Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman for failing to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. (3/4/03)

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