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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Biotechnology

September 12, 2012 | Forbes.com

Labeling Of Genetically Engineered Foods Is A Losing Proposition

September 6, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

A (Genetically-Modified) Apple a Day...

July 25, 2012 | Forbes.com

Fake And Flawed Medicines Threaten Us All

June 27, 2012 | Regulation (Cato Institute)

The Use and Abuse of Science in Policymaking

April 25, 2012 | Forbes

Anti-Technology Activists Are The Real Slime

The recent controversy over “lean finely textured beef” (LFTB), or “pink slime” as the media and activists love to call it, is reminiscent of the old TV commercial, “Where’s the beef...
April 12, 2012 | Daily Caller (DC)

Bad faith and bad science from NRDC

In 1989 the American apple industry was sent reeling by an unexpected blow — a lurid “60 Minutes” segment that supposedly exposed the cancer-causing dangers of Alar, a chemical used by some apple growers to synchronize the ripening of fruit...
March 14, 2012 | Forbes.com

Avastin Should Be Re-Approved For Breast Cancer

Could the new studies provide the rationale for another accelerated approval of Avastin, this time for early stage breast cancer? We don’t see why not...
February 16, 2012 | Forbes.com

Fake Drugs - All At a Pharmacy Near You!

In order to ensure the safety and efficacy of medicines and confidence in commerce, governments and individuals must make combating the counterfeiting of drugs a high priority...
December 8, 2011 | Forbes.com

Labeling Of Biotech Foods Is Unnecessary And Unconstitutional

Product labeling that conveys essential information is important, but mandatory labeling of gene-spliced foods is a bad idea...
November 23, 2011 | Forbes.com

NIH Reorganization Proposal Nothing To Crow About

[ASU] President Michael Crow has suggested in a series of published commentaries that the [NIH], currently funded to the tune of $31 billion annually, has not served the nation well and should be reorganized. But his cure surely would be worse than the disease...