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Nuclear Power Plant Withstands Major Earthquake
Opinion -In a real-world test of nuclear power plant safety, the world's largest nuclear power plant, at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, Japan, took the brunt of a major earthquake on July 16, 2007 and passed the test admirably. Little Damage Suffered Despite a magnitude 6. -
Electronic Medical Records May Offer a Partial Solution in Health Care
Opinion -Paper Kills--Transforming Health and Healthcare with Information Technology David Merritt, editor Center for Health Transformation, 2007 150 pages, paperback ISBN: 9781933966021, $19. -
Bad Data Fuels Efforts to Expand SCHIP
Opinion -Amy Goodman advocates for SCHIP expansion in “Health care for all kids a no-brainer” (July 25). She believes Michael Moore and Marion Edelman are right, and SCHIP will prevent deaths. Lack of health insurance, however, is not lack of medical care. -
SCHIP Expansion Uses Smoke Screen
Opinion -SCHIP expansion is known by Washington insiders as a blatant effort to incrementally introduce Hillary Care (“A Useful Health Debate,” July 29). -
Increased Funding Will Cripple Health Care Program
Opinion -Nancy Griffin, state director for the AARP, favors SCHIP expansion (“Raise tobacco tax, help kids” July 26, 2007). She is convinced that 6 million children will die from smoking, and 9 million have no health insurance. These numbers are inaccurate. -
Clarifying Our Health Care Options
Opinion -Crisis of Abundance--Rethinking How We Pay For Health Care Arnold Kling Washington, DC: Cato Press, 2006 110 pages, hardcover, ISBN 1930865899, $16.95 Arnold Kling is a lucid writer and down-to-earth Ph.D. -
Biofuels Are Threatening Tropical Rain Forests
Opinion -Increasing use of biofuels threatens environmental degradation in the Earth's most fragile ecosystems, according to an April 17 report by the environmental group Ecologists in Action. -
Obama Offers Bargain-Basement Solution to Health Care
Opinion -Dear Editor: Robin Toner reports on Sen. Barack Obama’s May 29 speech in Iowa, proposing his plans for health care reform. Sen. -
Record April Freeze Hits U.S.
Opinion -Hundreds of cities across most of the eastern United States suffered record cold and snow throughout much of April. Analysts pointed out the unexpected cold spell illustrates the unpredictability of both weather and longer-term climate conditions. -
Proposed Texas Utilities Sale Could End Environmental Dispute
Opinion -Texas Utilities (TXU) announced in February a preliminary agreement for the largest company buyout in U.S. -
Ethanol Driving Up Corn Prices
Opinion -Continuing high demand for corn, fueled by increasing ethanol production, will keep corn prices at historic levels for the foreseeable future, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on March 1. -
Many States Devastated by Frigid Weather
Opinion -In a time when the national media trumpets any brief heat wave or unusually warm local weather as "proof" of global warming, the winter of 2006-2007 offered quite a counterpunch of remarkable cold weather events. Calif. -
Weather Channel Host Shows Climate Alarmists’ Ugly Side
Opinion -Heidi Cullen, a Weather Channel meteorologist who hosts the station's alarmist weekly program The Climate Code, created a media stir on January 18 by calling on the American Meteorological Society (AMS) to decertify meteorologists who disagree with her -
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Vegetable Producers Sued for Air Pollution
Opinion -Environmental activist groups in California filed a lawsuit December 27 in the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco claiming the U.S. -
Federal Court Tosses Vioxx Suit
Opinion -On November 22, a federal judge refused to certify a national class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands of plaintiffs from various states. The suit claimed the plaintiffs had been injured by the arthritis drug Vioxx, manufactured by Merck. -
The Patient Safety Crusade–a Phony Crisis
Opinion -The American health care system is the biggest business sector in the country. As a result, it is a very attractive target for ambitious politicians and policymakers, with more than $2 trillion a year in expenditures. -
EPA Makes Mistakes in Proposed Air Quality Standards
Opinion -Over the past three decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has repeatedly ratcheted up restrictions and regulatory burdens to regulate ever-decreasing air pollutant emissions, often with no discernable effect on human health. -
Does Insurance Matter?
Opinion -Skeptics of single-payer health care got a gift from the Rand Corporation and the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine in March 2006, but no one on the left or the right recognized its true meaning at the time. -
All Candidates Out of Touch on Education
Opinion -Dear Editor: The October 25 candidate roundup, "Candidates sound off on state of education," was very well done. -
Lehr Statement on American Lung Association State of the Air 2005
Opinion -(April 28, 2005 -- Chicago, IL) The American Lung Association released its State of the Air 2005 report today.The following statement in response to that report can be attributed to Jay Lehr, Ph.D. -
Voucher Surprise in Alabama, Maryland Hears Parent Trigger Bill, and More: Today’s National Ed News Roundup
Opinion -Friday's ed news1. In a surprise move instantly generating anger from the opposition, Alabama lawmakers pass a tax-credit scholarship bill for kids in failing schools.2. Maryland legislators are considering a Parent Trigger bill. 3.
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