Fluorescent Light Bulbs: Dark Ages in Perspective
As you know the EU is phasing out traditional incandescent light bulbs in order to “save energy and the climate”. Consumers are obliged to successively replace the simple and cheap incandescent lamps...
View ArticlePrevention is not Always Better than The Cure
The French government under the ever-energized President Nicolas Sarkozy became aware at the beginning of the year that it was threatened to sit on more than 90 million doses of Swine flu vaccine,...
View ArticleFlight bans: A lesson about the Precautionary Principle
by Edgar L. Gärtner Just in time before the first business failures caused by several-day-long flight losses, the air traffic in Western and Central Europe slowly got off the ground after the complete...
View ArticleProper Precautions
by Einar Du Rietz “Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups”, my former colleague, the environmental affairs director, liked to quote his favourite actor Steven Seagal as saying. It could be read as an...
View ArticleSwine Flu H1N1: WHO declares the invented pandemic to be over
Following the suggestions of her strong emergency committee, WHO General-Director Margaret Chan now officially declares the swine flu epidemic to be over. This official statement was made 15 months...
View ArticleC’est en Septembre
Al Gore for less than a Euro. Fine with me. It's been a while since someone mentioned that movie. Incidentally, yesterday, I friend told me that when her daughter had to watch it in class, she gave her...
View ArticleUnprincipled lack of precaution on wind turbines
The problem with regard to consistency get larger as we come to realize that whatever they support is permitted; whatever they oppose violates the Precautionary Principle. They support windmills;...
View ArticleFDA: No low-dose chemical dangers
Dennis Avery reminds us that -- as Dr. Bruce Ames so famously wrote -- the dose makes the poison. The Food and Drug Administration, he notes, has just given the green light to low doses of the...
View ArticleBig Green’s lethal agenda
Paul Driessen explains that the Deep Ecologists and their allies who endorse "sustainability," the "precautionary principle," and other barriers to resource development that would improve human lives...
View ArticleTaxpayers forced to fund anti-chemical activism
CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen recounts how the National Institutes for Environmental Health Sciences has colluded with radicalized international agencies, anti-chemical pressure groups, and...
View ArticleA double ban gets a double reversal
The Interior Department reverses an activist-initiated Obama-era ban on farming activities that used a bumblebee as a pretext. The post A double ban gets a double reversal appeared first on CFACT.
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