All Posts Tagged With: "public health"
Safe Food at Any Cost
We all want safe food. Question is, how do we get it? “There oughta be a law” seems to be the generally conceived approach, as evidenced by recent passage of the now-famous food safety bill. A tidy and altogether comforting solution: Simply slay the beast of dangerous food with the bludgeon of enlightened bureaucracy. But [...]
21Apr2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 1 comment | ContinuedPrivate Guns, Public Health
David Hemenway, a professor of health policy at Harvard University, harbors a deep aversion to guns. His book embodies the institutional prejudices of a cohort of academics notable for their abiding predisposition for state control over individuals for “the public good.” So ingrained is the bias that it almost dashes one’s hopes that firearms can [...]
12Jul2010 | Timothy J. Wheeler | 0 comments | ContinuedOn Not Admitting Error
According to a September 2006 report in the New York Times, Afghanistan’s opium harvest has increased almost 50 percent from the year before and reached the highest levels ever recorded. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (sic) explained: “It is indeed very bad, you can say it is [...]
1Mar2007 | Thomas Szasz | 2 comments | ContinuedDoes Obesity Justify Big Government?
Last January media outlets reported that cancer had
overtaken heart disease as the number-one killer
in the United States. Sounds scary, no?
Pharmacists and Freedom
According to the newspapers, pharmacists throughout the United States are refusing to fill prescriptions for the “morning-after” pill and other contraceptives because of religious objections. This has caused some concern and has prompted at least one governor to intervene. Last spring Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich issued an emergency order requiring pharmacies to honor all prescriptions. [...]
1Jul2005 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe State of the Air: Propaganda, Not Science
Each May the American Lung Association (ALA) issues “The State of the Air” in which it reports on ground-level ozone pollution county by county over a three-year period. The study gives each county a grade (A-F) based on what are called “ozone exceedence days” and calculates the number of people “put at risk” for respiratory [...]
1Oct2003 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares and Scams, by Steven J. Milloy
Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares and Scams by Steven J. Milloy Cato Institute • 2001 • 191 pages • $18.95 Reviewed by Theodore Balaker So much of staying healthy and sane is worrying about what’s important and not sweating the small stuff. It makes sense to worry about, say, getting enough exercise since [...]
18Jan2003 | Theodore Balaker | 0 comments | ContinuedFast Food and Personal Responsibility
Ninos Malek teaches economics at San Jose State University, De Anza College, and Valley Christian High School. By now everyone knows that the fast-food chains are being sued because they allegedly contribute to obesity. On Fox’s “Hannity and Colmes” program last July, Samuel Hirsch, the attorney who filed lawsuits against McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, and [...]
1Jan2003 | Ninos P. Malek | 2 comments | ContinuedLiving with Mass Transit
The foes of the automobile have long sung the praises of mass transit as the savior of Mother Earth. The automobile pollutes and enables human beings to spread out over the surface of the earth, paving over an alarming amount of green land. Automobiles regularly kill more people than all of our wars. It’s utter [...]
1Sep2002 | Stephen Browne | 0 comments | ContinuedA Model for Medical Tyranny
In the wake of September 11, every state has been asked to enact a law providing for unprecedented, comprehensive health surveillance and medical martial law. The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, proposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), would provide a state’s governor with sole discretion to declare a public-health emergency. [...]
1Aug2002 | Twila Brase | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment Needs to Lose Weight
How ironic that just as an already bloated government is taking on major new powers, it is exhorting us to lose weight. That’s exactly what former Surgeon General David Satcher did before leaving office. In his “Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity,” Dr. Satcher wrote that “Our ultimate goal is to [...]
1Jun2002 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2002/3
While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today by Donald Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan St. Martin’s Press o 2000 o 483 pages o $32.50 Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy and Defense Policy edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol Encounter Books o 2000 o 401 pages [...]
1Mar2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedFrom Pathology to Politics: Public Health in America
From Pathology to Politics, by economists James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo, is a serious, eye-opening indictment of America’s public-health establishment. Bennett and DiLorenzo mark the release of the federal government’s Kerner Report of 1968 as the point when the public-health establishment (PHE), incarnated in the American Public Health Association (APHA), crossed its Rubicon [...]
1Jan2002 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Tainted Public-Health Model of Gun Control
Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? —Juvenal Early in the 1990s the American Medical Association (AMA) launched a major campaign against domestic violence, which continues to this day. As a concerned physician, neurosurgeon, and then an active member of organized medicine, I joined in what I considered a worthwhile cause. It was then that I arrived [...]
1Apr2001 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 6 comments | ContinuedAn Endless Series of Hobgoblins: The Science and Politics of Environmental Health Scares
Dr. Nelson is professor of environmental policy at the School of Public Affairs of the University of Maryland and senior fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The idea of the scientific professional emerged in the progressive era around the beginning of this century. There should be a clear boundary, the founders of scientific professions said, [...]
1Jul1996 | Robert H. Nelson | 0 comments | ContinuedNational Health Care: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945
Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., a physician and anthropologist, directs the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., which recently brought from Berlin the exhibition, “The Value of the Human Being: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945,” curated by Christian Pross and Götz Aly. Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, [...]
1Nov1993 | Marc S. Micozzi M.D. | 43 comments | Continued-
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