Don't be afraid of your food. It's easy to scare people about what's in their food, but the danger is almost never real. And the fear itself kills. Take the panic over genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Ninety percent of all corn grown in America is genetically modified now. That means it grew from a seed that scientists altered by ... MORE
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John Stossel: Eat Without Fear
Don't be afraid of your food. It's easy to scare people about what's in their food, but the danger is almost never real. And the fear itself kills. Take the panic over genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Ninety percent of all corn grown in America is genetically modified now. That means it grew from a seed that scientists altered by ... MORESteve Chapman: The FBI Prospers By Feeding Fear
Careful, he might be behind the tree. James Comey became FBI director last year, at a time when Osama bin Laden was dead, terrorism at home was on the decline and the United States was shrinking its inflammatory presence in the Muslim world. So naturally, he says the danger is way worse than you think. Referring to al-Qaida groups ... MOREJohn Stossel: Good News
Are you worried about the future? It's hard not to be. If you watch the news, you mostly see violence, disasters, danger. Some in my business call it "fear porn" or "pessimism porn." People like the stuff; it makes them feel alive and informed. Of course, it's our job to tell you about problems. If a plane crashes — or disappears — that's news. ... MOREPublic Schools Deliberately Create a Culture of Fear
by Daisy Luther. Setting the stage for tyranny. What is the best way to ensure that gun control takes place within a generation?Forget trying to change the minds of those who already have guns. The best way to do this is to encourage a culture of fear among young people. And the public school system, with all of its zero tolerance lunacy, is doing just ... MOREIs Crazed Super Bowl Security a Taste of America To Come?
by J. D. Tuccille. Think of a TSA checkpoint that goes on, forever. In the run-up to Super Bowl XLVIII (just be
happy they don't use Egyptian numerals), the New York City Police
Department is deploying an "amazing
arsenal of security initiatives," including
200 "temporary" surveillance cameras to ensure that dirty deeds
remain undone at the big ... MOREHistoric Deep Freeze Proves Global Warming, Right?
Mike Adams on how everything is evidence. Global warming is getting worse. It's so bad now that it has thrust most of North America into an historic deep freeze with plummeting temperatures that haven't been seen in decades. This is absolute proof that global warming is worsening, and the way I know that is because the same people ... MORE
Chris Rossini: Why The State Likes To Frighten You
When the public shudders, government grows. Many libertarians and Austrian economists consistently preach that the battle we are engaged in is a battle of ideas. Education is paramount. In other words, those who subscribe to this point of view believe strongly in winning the long-game. He who wins the long-game, wins. ... MORERonald Bailey: Five Phony Public Health Scares
Scaremongering sells. Health activists, nutrition nannies, medical paternalists, and just plain old quacks regularly conjure up menaces that are supposedly damaging the health of Americans. Their scares range from the decades-long campaign against fluoridation to worries that saccharin causes cancer to the ongoing hysteria ... MORELarry Bell: What The Global Warming Hysteria Ignores
What about 17 years of flat global temperatures? The New York Times feverishly reported on August 10 that the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is about to issue another scary climate report. Dismissing the recent 17 years or so of flat global temperatures, the IPCC will assert that: “It is extremely ... MORERonald Bailey: The Top 5 Bogus Health Scares
How activist misinformation harms Americans. Health activists, nutrition nannies, medical paternalists, and just plain old quacks regularly conjure up a variety of menaces that are supposedly damaging the health of Americans. Their scares ranging from the decades-long campaign against fluoridation to worries that saccharin ... MOREWilliam Tucker: Press Goes Crackers Over Fracking
Latest in the smear campaign against fracking. If you want to see how the press acts like a bunch of hysterical ninnies, just look at the way an article in Science about earthquakes and underground wastewater storage pools has been distorted into a national alarm about fracking. By the time you read this, you will have already read the headline ... MOREWalter E Williams: Understanding Liberals And Progressives
Who can be easily manipulated by scare tactics? In order to understand the liberal and progressive agenda, one must know something about their world vision and values. Let's examine some of the evidence. Why the 1970s struggle to ban DDT? Alexander King, founder of the Malthusian Club of Rome, wrote in a 1990 biographical ... MOREGovernment Is Addicted To Crackpot Scare Tactics
by Steven Greenhut. “As many as 100,000 crack babies are born every year,” reported the Los Angeles Times in an overheated 1990 article echoing the results of a Department of Health and Human Services study. The feds were calling for a massive influx of tax dollars to fund social programs to help a new generation of Americans born to mothers ... MOREReid J. Epstein: President's Cigarette Tax Up In Smoke
Fortunately, it just hot air all along. Remember the cigarette tax hike President Barack Obama proposed in his big budget rollout? The White House barely does. Presidential budgets are all about theater. But this year’s was more theatrical than most: Its biggest single new proposal — the sin tax to generate $78 billion to fund a preschool ... MORE
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