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Risk assessment and decision-making for genetically modified foods
Source: Institute of Public Affairs
Country: United States

The introduction of genetically modified foods has been accompanied by a level of concern in Europe which was not seen in the United States. ... This Backgrounder ... draws attention to the use of exaggerated claims and the misuse of the precautionary principle by the opponents of GM foods. (10/1/99)

Bio-invaders
Source: Reason
Author: Ronald Bailey
Country: United States

Environmentalists often lament the introduction of plants and animals into new areas, but the process is neither new nor necessarily bad. (7/12/00)

Precautionary principle and genetically modified crops
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: Indur M. Goklany
Country: United States

Advocates of applying the precautionary principle will be surprised to know that the risks of inhibiting the practice of genetically modifying crops are greater than the risks of continuing to develop the technology. Adobe PDF. (8/00)

The Misuse of Science in Environmental Management
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Dr. Hugh W. Ellsaesser
Country: United States

Heartland Policy Study. Reviews some of the demonstrable examples of the inappropriate use of science in debates over environmental issues. (Also available in PDF for free, and printed for $9.)

The Biosafety Protocol: the real losers are developing countries
Source: Consumer Alert
Author: Frances B. Smith
Country: United States

Frances Smith rebuts the analysis that the recent Biodiversity Protocol is a "win-win" agreement. Her analysis suggests that developing countries will actually lose. The report is available in Adobe PDF. (4/00)

Genetically modified nonsense
Source: The Institute of Economic Affairs
Author: Thomas R. DeGregori
Country: United States

Fear and ignorance have dominated the scientific discourse over genetically altered food for decades. Now, at a time when biotechnology truly has the potential to feed the masses, the silence of factual science could perpetuate world hunger. (2/00)

The GMO battle: Stories from the troubled beginning of the biological century
Source: Institute of Economic Affairs
Author: Richard D. North
Country: United States

As biological science grows in importance -- and demonization -- the author examines the relationship between environmentalists, consumer organisations, the media, politicians and the public. (3/00)

Dr. Strangelunch?
Source: Reason
Author: Ronald Bailey
Country: United States

If anti-biotech activists win their war against genetically modified food, it's the world's poor who will suffer the most. (12/18/00)

The cancer risk from low level radiation: a review of recent evidence
Source: Medical Sentinel
Author: Bernard L. Cohen
Country: United States
E-mail: medical@free-market.net

Cohen examines the cancer risks to humans of low-level radiation, and whether environmental scare attacks aren't overblown. (8/00)

Biotechnology regulation in America and Europe
Source: IEA
Author: Gerald F. Gaull
Country: United States

"Dr. Gaull's thesis suggests that the modern biotechnology industry has evolved with far less resistance in the United States than in Germanic Europe due to deeply-rooted and fundamentally divergent cultural trajectories." (Adobe Acrobat) (8/98)

Saving lives by rejecting the precautionary principle
Source: NCPA
Author: H. Sterling Burnett and A. Wess Mitchell
Country: United States

"Many environmentalists, citing the adage "better safe than sorry," argue that the 'precautionary principle' should govern policy making. By this, they mean that technology should not be used until or unless it can be shown to pose no threat to humans or the environment." (08/15/01)

Mean cuisine
Source: Washington Monthly
Author: Greg Critser
Country: United States

"Gone is the Joy of Cooking. Today's celebrity chefs are serving up a menu of global doom and politically twisted snobbery." (07/01)

Libertarians are right!
Source: The American Prospect
Author: Chris Mooney
Country: United States

"When it comes to promising technologies like genetically modified foods, liberals need stranger bedfellows." (06/22/01)

Malaria and the anti-DDT campaign
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: Roger Bate
Country: United States

"DDT use must be allowed to continue until it becomes redundant by technological advances. For developed nations, and their aid agencies and environmental groups, to pressure countries to abandon it will kill thousands and cost millions. It is a mistake that does not need to be made." (11/01)

Truth or media myths?
Source: AIM
Author: Reed Irvine
Country: United States

Overview of various issues addressed in AIM's annual conference that examined "the human and economic costs of policy decisions influenced by the combination of bad science and advocacy journalism." (11/25/02)

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