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A disease cluster scare implodes; a new one is born

February 8, 2010 07:55 PM EST
Yesterday I wrote that a scare over a scleroderma cluster in South Boston had been resolved when the state department of health found no links to anything manmade, but rather than the sufferers were simply genetically more inclined to developing...
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Indians Objecting to Paleface Wind Farms

February 8, 2010 12:51 PM EST
Despite massive subsidies, wind power still only provides about two percent of U.S. energy. Part of the problem is inherent. It takes a lot of turbines to produce the power that a single coal-fired or nuke plant can produce. So...
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Toyota's Troubles

February 7, 2010 08:54 PM EST
While driving with my future wife along California's scenic but treacherous Pacific Coast Highway in 1991, my brand new Toyota suddenly fishtailed and dove straight off a cliff. That's the "after" picture you see. I was uninjured, but my wife...
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Yes, WHO faked a pandemic and is now lying about it, my Forbes article

February 7, 2010 08:37 PM EST
The World Health Organization has suddenly gone from crying "The sky is falling!" like a cackling Chicken Little to squealing like a stuck pig. The reason: charges that the agency deliberately fomented swine flu hysteria. "The world is going through...
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American Spectator's Tom Bethel writes about my views on Wikipedia

February 7, 2010 08:28 PM EST
In an American Spectator piece, "Global Warmists Feel a Chilly Wind," Tom Bethell states, "Two weeks ago I wrote an article here about global warming and the advocates - call them warmists - who tamper with Wikipedia to reflect their...
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Another "man-made" disease cluster solved

February 7, 2010 08:10 PM EST
What man-made pollutants were causing the mysterious cluster of scleroderma in South Boston? Scleroderma is a rare, incurable, sometimes fatal illness that hardens muscles and internal organs. It's victims are overwhelming women. It's an autoimmune disease, meaning the body's immune...
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Mike Fumento

Recent Articles

The Damage of the Anti-vaccination Movement (Los Angeles Times, February 5, 2010)

Of Killer Cans and Toxic Baby Bottles (Investor's Business Daily, February 2, 2010)

The Hole in the EPA's Ozone Claim (Forbes Online, January 26, 2010)

Get Rid of the Rope Because Reid Was Right (January 20, 2010)

Swine Flu Epidemic Ends With a Whimper (Philadelphia Inquirer, January 13, 2010)

The Negative Side of Positive Thinking (Forbes Online, January 6, 2010)

Stormy Times for Global Warmists (December 29, 2009)

The WHO Should Just Give Up on the Flu Scare (National Post, December 3, 2009)

Show Me The Warming (Forbes Online, November 30, 2009)

Cobbling Together a Crisis: From a Swine Flu Epidemic that's Peaked (National Review Online, November 19, 2009)

Not Fit for Combat (Forbes Online, November 18, 2009)

Veterans' Ghosts (Forbes Online, November 11, 2009)

No Medals for Hiring Vets (Philadelphia Inquirer, November 10, 2009)

The Swine Flu Boogeyman (Forbes Online, November 7, 2009)

Obama Administration's Flu Fearmongering (Investor's Business Daily, October 26, 2009)

Swine Flu 'Piglet' Pandemic (Washington Times, October 20, 2009)

Swine Flu: The Pandemic is Political (Forbes.com, October 16, 2009)

Swine Flu: The Real Threat is Panic (New York Post, October 8, 2009)

Wrong Warming Rx (New York Post, September 3, 2009)

President's Council's Swine Flu House of Cards (Philadelphia Inquirer, September 2, 2009)

Romer, A Study In Contradictions, Pirouettes Yet Again On Stimulus (Investor's Business Daily, August 24, 2009)

Article Archive

Blast from the Past

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

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

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