Henry I. Miller
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New York farmers' futures depend on a single Hochul decision
Gov. Kathy Hochul must choose whether to sign or veto a bill banning a certain class of insecticides that are used worldwide and save up to 71% of farmers’ crops.
New York to pass 'green' law that could slash jobs —?and actually harm the environment
Let’s let this sordid and costly drama stay in Europe. New York politicians should let the state’s qualified environmental regulators make the decisions. ?
MIT alums: We can't support a school that caved to woke mentality
The current MIT administration has caved repeatedly to the demands of “wokeness,” treating its students unfairly, compromising the quality of its staff, and damaging the institution and academic freedom at...
Politicians are scapegoating e-cigs for harm they haven’t done
When there’s an outbreak of deaths or illnesses from injected street drugs, do public health authorities demand diabetics and doctors stop using syringes? Of course not. Yet a host of...
Life-saving drugs and deadly delays
The Food and Drug Administration just granted permission for “expanded access” to an experimental medicine for Ebola. It’s OK as far as it goes, but it’s an exception to the...
The industry Obamacare is killing
Among the many things wrong with ObamaCare is how an obscure tax that helps pay for the program is hammering the US medical-device industry, killing jobs and threatening lifesaving advances....
Don’t eat your organic veggies
Any shopper can tell that organic fruits and vegetables are expensive. Now a peer-reviewed academic study tells us that they’re no more healthful than conventional products. Researchers at Stanford University’s...
The joke that we call Congress
In the latest Gallup Confidence in Insti tutions poll, Congress ranked dead last out of the 16 institutions rated -- and that was before l'affaire Weiner and the indictment of...
SWINE-FLU HYSTERIA: WHO DUNNIT
NOW that the H1N1 swine-flu outbreak appears to be waning, it's time to draw important lessons from what happened. First, the pronouncements from the World Health Organization, a United Nations...
THE NEW DRUG WAR
HERE'S some more bad news for the New York-New Jersey area: The once-invulnerable pharmaceutical industry is facing tough times of its own. "Big Pharma" firms with headquarters and/or major R&D...
IT'S FRANKENFOOD V. THE KILLER TOMATOES
IT'S the organic-food industry's worst nightmare: The surest answers to "killer tomatoes" are "Frankenfood" and irradiation, both anathema to the "natural" crowd. Food poisoning from Salmonella Saintpaul bacteria in raw...
IMPORTED DRUGS: HIDDEN HAZARDS
SCIENTISTS have discovered the contaminant in the blood-thinning drug heparin that has caused hun dreds of allergic reactions and 19 deaths in this country alone: It appears to be a...
TO SLAY 'SUPERBUG'
IN the war between pathogenic bacteria and humans, the microbes seem to be winning: They're evolving resistance to our antibiotics faster than we're evolving new ways to attack them. Our...