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Alarmist Greens continue to fool a nervous public
IPN Opinion article
\"Like the scares promoted in Our Stolen Future on Earth Day five years ago, the case of earlier puberty is not established. But by the time this scare is discredited, as it almost certainly will be, the greens will have moved on to a new scare, and the public will be erroneously convinced that synthetic chemicals are causing all sorts of harmful effects...\"
Ban on DDT led to death and suffering
IPN Opinion article
"Rachel Carson, who died in 1964, is largely credited with launching the modern environmentalist movement with her book Silent Spring. Published in 1962, it alleged that widespread agricultural use of the pesticide DDT was the cause of enormous environmental harm, in particular to birds and their egg shells. Her treatise led to the banning of DDT in many countries. Last week the United Nations outlawed the dirty dozen chemicals [including DDT] the greens love to hate."
Free market best by test
IPN Opinion article
\"Antiglobalists insist anything big and market oriented is bad. But the major problem in the third world is the lack of capital, knowledge and technology. The most efficient way to transfer this is through foreign investments. Investors have transferred 1-trillion to the developing countries in the past decade more than all aid since the Second World War.\"
Ending patents not the cure
IPN Opinion article
\"The problem with the ending of patent protection, though, is that in the long term we all lose, especially those in developing countries. And that will be the outcome if the pharmaceutical companies fail in their attempt starting on March 5 in Pretoria High Court to overturn legislation that allows patent-breaking anti-AIDS drugs to be imported from India...\"
Ending patents not the cure
IPN Opinion article
\"The problem with the ending of patent protection, though, is that in the long term we all lose, especially those in developing countries. And that will be the outcome if the pharmaceutical companies fail in their attempt starting on March 5 in Pretoria High Court to overturn legislation that allows patent-breaking anti-AIDS drugs to be imported from India...\"
