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Lose 50 points for going home and getting a real job…

It’s that time of year again, when a potpourri of violent anarchists and militant socialists descend on our nation’s capital to attract media attention and spread fear. But this year’s…
Posted September 23, 2002 at12:00 am

But it’s bad for you…!

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa pleaded for “patience” on Thursday, so that scientists could look for “foolproof scientific evidence” that genetically improved foods are safe for human consumption. Funny, most…
Posted September 23, 2002 at12:00 am

Fiddling While Africa Starves

Yesterday’s report from a British environmentalist group called the Soil Association claimed (among other things) that widespread use of genetically improved food crops has cost the United States over…
Posted September 18, 2002 at12:00 am

American Consumer Freedom

One year ago today, a band of murderous thugs shook our world up in ways we are still struggling to understand. On this most solemn anniversary, we at the Center…
Posted September 11, 2002 at12:00 am

Big Milk On Campus

“It looks like those animal-rights freaks known as PETA are coming back,” writes Winnipeg Sun columnist Tom Brodbeck. He’s right. The Virginia group with ties to domestic terrorism is…
Posted September 10, 2002 at12:00 am

A risk-free world without science

In a stunning statement, the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science lashed out on Sunday against those fostering the general public’s “increasing anti-intellectualism” toward modern science.
Posted September 10, 2002 at12:00 am

Non-violent protests with guns?

The tactics of the United States’ most dangerous domestic terrorists may take an even more violent turn in the near future, if their own rhetoric can be believed. This week…
Posted September 4, 2002 at12:00 am

Biotech Backtracking

As the threat of mass starvation in sub-Saharan Africa grows more and more undeniable, some of the most strident opponents of genetically improved foods are reconsidering their positions. The Wall…
Posted September 4, 2002 at12:00 am

May I have the shovel, please….?

At a rally yesterday near the South African site of this year’s World Summit on Sustainable Development, anti-technology activist and self-described “goddess” Vandana Shiva was awarded this year’s “Bullsh*t…
Posted August 29, 2002 at12:00 am

A Precautionary Tale

We thought that maybe, just maybe there were still a few corners of the world untouched by the unscientific rantings of anti-biotech-food activists. We were wrong. It’s hardly news…
Posted August 27, 2002 at12:00 am