A Closer Look at Cancer

Does Racism Cause Breast Cancer? (The American Spectator Online, July 13, 2007)

Killing the Passive Smoking Debate (Town Hall, June 28, 2006)

Breast Cancer and Herceptin Hype (Scripps Howard News Service, November 3, 2005)

Teflon Accusation Doesn't Stick (Scripps Howard News Service, July 21, 2005)

Passive Aggressive in Ohio (The American Spectator, February 24, 2005)

When Cancer Comes Home (Scripps Howard News Service, October 21, 2004)

Antioxidant Supplements: Worthless – or Worse? (Tech Central Station, October 15, 2004)

The "Cancer Epidemic" that Never Was (Tech Central Station, June 23, 2004)

New Weapons in War on Cancer (Scripps Howard News Service, March 4, 2004)

A Costly Obsesssion (Scripps Howard News Service, October 2, 2003)

'Protecting' Kids Right off the Playground (Scripps Howard News Service, August 28, 2003)

The Siege of Beverly Hills High (Scripps Howard News Service, March 13, 2003)

"The Real Gal" (Forbes, May 28, 2001)

Bill Moyers’s Bad Chemistry (April 13, 2001)

Erin Go Away! The Myth Behind the Movie Lives On (The National Review, March 21, 2001)

Voodoo Investing (Forbes, October 16, 2000)

Errin' Brockovich (American Outlook, Summer 2000)

The Radon Scare: When Scientists Oppose Science (May 31, 2000)

The Dark Side of Erin Brockovich (The National Post, March 29, 2000)

'Erin Brockovich,' Exposed (The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2000)

Terrifying Women for Profits and Politics (American Outlook, Fall 1999) **With reactions**

Samuel Epstein: Science Meets the X-Files (National Post, May 8, 1999)

Preventative Mastectomy: Happy Acceptance of a Horrific Procedure(Chicago Tribune, February 2, 1999)

The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease (The American Spectator, December 1998)

Disney Pollutes (Forbes Magazine, December 28, 1998)

The Deadly Silence Over Breast Cancer and Obesity (1998)

Heavy Silence (Reason Magazine, April 1998)

The Abortion-Cancer Study to End All Studies? Hardly (1997)

The Cancer Institute's Ridiculous Radon Redux (1997)

Breast Cancer Goose Chase Harms Everyone (1997)

Cancer Study Exposes the Media's Hypocrisy (1997)

Pollution Study Doesn't Merit Rush to Regulation (1996)

NutraSweet Fuss Amounts to Sweet Nothings (1996)

Abortion-Breast Cancer Study Threatens Media Sacred Cow (1996)

Cancer Charge against Milk Udderly Ridiculous (1996)

Who's Stirring up Breast Cancer Fear?(1996)

Radon's Real Threat is to the EPA (1996)

The Greens Against The Greens (USGA Green Section Record, May/June 1995)

Shock Journalism – The Junk Reporting Behind the Power Line-Cancer Connection (Reason Magazine, January 1995)

Fear of Phoning: The Irrational and Baseless Fear of Technology (Reason Magazine, June 1993)

Are Pesticides Really So Bad? (Investor's Business Daily, April 1, 1993)

Leaders & Success: Bruce Ames (Investor's Business Daily, January 8, 1992)

Superfund: Hazardous Waste? (Investor's Business Daily, October 22, 1991)

Trouble in the Tropic of Cancer (Reason Magazine, April 1991)

Rocky Flats Horror Picture Show: Rocky Flats Plutonium-Processing Plant (National Review, November 5, 1990)

The Politics of Cancer Testing (The American Spectator, August 1990)

The Asbestos Rip-Off(Reader's Digest, January 1990)

The Asbestos Rip-Off (The American Spectator, October 1989) ***Extended version ***

Read Michael Fumento's additional work on smoking and passive smoking and on pollution.

Michael Fumento's book, Science Under Siege, has several chapters covering cancer and such issues as EMF, dioxin and Agent Orange. His book, The Fat of the Land, deals with the health risks of obesity.