Yearly Archives: 2005

Washington Post Nonprofit’s Tactics, Funding Sources Spark Controversy By Caroline E. Mayer and Amy Joyce Washington Post Staff Writers The full-page newspaper ads shout “Hype” at readers, warning them that they have “been force-fed a steady diet of obesity myths … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery Obesity will soon be America’s #1 killer. Sue your local McDonalds. Limit restaurant portions. Put a nagging bureaucrat at every supermarket checkout stand. Oops. That was last year. The newest advice, from a variety of medical sources, says … Continue reading →

Paul Driessen This year, let’s remember that billions still face real, life-threatening dangers Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore says the environmental movement “has lost its objectivity, morality and humanity.” This Earth Day, let us dedicate ourselves to restoring those essential … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery The UN’s new Millennium Ecosystem Assessment says that unless humans stop their “unsustainable exploitation of the Earth’s resources,” our children and grandchildren will be forced to live in a “worsening environment that endangers their existence.” More than 1,300 … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery CNN is offering Americans a new global warming TV special—I refuse to call it a documentary—titled “Melting Point.” However, CNN’s “evidence” for superwarming melts under critical examination. First, “Melting Point” warns that Alaskan seal hunters, both humans and … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery Virtually all of the Kyoto Protocol’s member countries have increased their CO2 emissions since signing the treaty. The political and economic costs of reducing CO2 from cars and factories have proven very high. So they just haven’t happened. … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery As Americans decide whether to entrust the congress with more money—or make the Bush tax cuts permanent—Senator Tom Harkin (D. IA) is readying another lavish farm bill to delight his agribusiness constituents. Harkin, the ranking Democrat on the … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery and Terry Witt This article ran in the Oregonian’s editorial page on Friday, March 25, 2005. Oregon has witnessed a prime-time assault by activist wolves in consumer clothes, with the Tillamook County Creamery Association, one of the state’s … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery Researchers from the Scripps Oceanographic Institute generated big headlines in recent weeks, claiming they’ve found “the first clear evidence of human-produced warming in the oceans.” “This is perhaps the most compelling evidence yet that global warming is happening … Continue reading →

Dennis Avery Scare-mongering is an ugly practice, especially when the scare-mongers are willing to risk babies’ health to falsely indict modern science and technology. The latest scare is that women are picking up a chemical called perchlorate-used as primary ingredient … Continue reading →