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Supreme Court Case May Wipe Out Vaccine Industry

October 27, 2010 10:53 AM EST

Back when Congress knew how to pass good legislation, in this case in the mid-1980s, it took most cases involving vaccine liability out of the normal court system and put them in a special vaccine court where science and medicine...
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Of mice and men and Christine O'Donnell

October 20, 2010 06:38 PM EST

A recent exchange between Christine O'Donnell and Bill O'Reilly, with a lack of scientific information on both sides. O'REILLY: Everybody knows that scientists have enough knowledge to clone a human being if they wanted to. O'DONNELL: Right. O'REILLY: But they're...
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WashPost article on Stephen Colbert's Catholicism

October 16, 2010 12:01 PM EST

There's an interesting article in the Washington Post about Stephen Colbert's Catholicism, although one does note that he was taught by Jesuits, whose idea of Catholicism is not mainstream. But neither is it atheism. One thing I say for both...
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Top scientist calls "scam" Geron human ESC experiment

October 14, 2010 06:31 PM EST

To much celebration and media play, the first human trial of embryonic stem cells has begun. With a grand total so far of one patient. "I don't understand [having] human trials because the animal studies aren't very convincing," David Bennett,...
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My piece on texting while driving in LA Times

October 3, 2010 08:04 PM EST

"Border collie jill surveying the view from atop the sand dune." Those were the last words of Malibu plastic surgeon Frank Ryan, best known for "reconstructing" reality TV star Heidi Montag. It's not quite up there with "Et tu, Brute?"...
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Science credibility flu away - at least in Europe

September 28, 2010 12:36 PM EST

Throughout the phony flu pandemic I warned that health officials would lose credibility because basically everything they were telling us was false and, unlike with some phony predictions which are safely years away, these quickly be shown false. Turns out...
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Mike Fumento

Recent Articles

Vaccines And The Supremes (Forbes Online, October 22, 2010)

Stem Cell News: Hype Over Science (AOL News, October 14, 2010)

Texters, You'd Be Better Off Driving Drunk (Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2010)

California's Job Terminator (Forbes Online, September 15, 2010)

New Medicare Proposal Could Be A Real Killer (Forbes Online, August 25, 2010)

A Requiem For The Phantom Pandemic (The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 2010)

A License To Kill: The 'Toyota defense' Springs a Manslaughter Convict (New York Post, August 10, 2010)

California Trial Lawyers Find A Geezer Goldmine: Skilled Healthcare Will Pay Now; the Elderly will Pay Later (Forbes Online, July 28, 2010)

93 and Counting: In their Toyota coverage reporters aren’t letting facts get in the way of a good story (Forbes Magazine, print edition, August 9, 2010)

Cellphone Fear in San Francisco (Forbes Online, July 6, 2010)

Cold-Blooded Murderers Can Still Make a Living (Forbes Online, June 11, 2010)

Purveying Pig Flu Panic at the Post (Canada Free Press, June 10, 2010)

The Phony Flu: Just the Facts, M’am; Just the Facts (Canada Free Press, June 7, 2010)

'Denialism' Has No Place in Scientific Debate (Letter published in Nature Medicine, May 2010)

False Prophets of Swine Flu Pandemic (New York Post, June 5, 2010)

No More Crying ’Spanish Flu’ (Forbes.com, May 20, 2010)

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Blast from the Past

Read Michael Fumento's Afghanistan blog entries and view his Afghanistan photo set; also his Iraq blog entries and Fall 2006 photos, Spring 2006 photos and Spring 2005 photos detailing his activities in Iraq.

The New Band of Brothers (The Weekly Standard, June 19, 2006)

Return to Ramadi (The Weekly Standard, November 27, 2006)

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