Henry Miller
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Viewpoint: FDA gives organic food marketers a pass on deceptive labeling—at consumer expense
[W]hen it comes to the $47-billion-a-year organic industry, the FDA gives a complete pass to blatantly false and deceptive advertising ...
Viewpoint: How organic activists use intimidation and character assassination to attack GMOs
In Part 1, I described the vendetta by the Russian government's propaganda apparatus against technologies like fracking and modern genetic ...
Prominent anti-GMO NGOs and organic businesses partnered with Russia to ‘smear’ American agriculture
It's no secret that although the Internet has vastly improved our lives in many respects, it has downsides — less ...
Was there Russian collusion? When it comes to prominent anti-GMO groups, the disturbing answer is ‘yes’
Modern genetic engineering techniques applied to agriculture are making stunning advances. This year, after decades in (gratuitous) regulatory limbo, the ...
Did anti-GMO groups plant ‘rogue’ GMO wheat in Canada to deliberately disrupt markets to manipulate public opinion?
In the summer of 2017, a contractor applied the popular weed-killer glyphosate (brand name Roundup®) to clear some weeds along ...
Déjà vu all over again: Germany’s ‘regulatory stranglehold’ on New Breeding Techniques mirrors its policy on GMOs 20 years ago
Biotechnology applied to agriculture is beginning to yield all manner of products, including fruits and vegetables that are disease-resistant, more ...
Viewpoint: Scott Pruitt gone from EPA because of ethical transgressions but regulatory reform of ‘rogue agency’ might be his lasting legacy
Scott Pruitt, who lost his job as head of the Environmental Protection Agency last week after a flood of complaints ...
Viewpoint: US EPA rebuffs activist lobbying, finds neonicotinoids not key driver of bee health problems
In The Neonic Ban: A Scientific Fraud Becomes Enshrined In EU Regulatory Law, I described the many elements of corruption that ...
Viewpoint: EU’s neonicotinoid ban is a ‘scientific fraud’ and won’t protect bees
Five years after the European Union imposed a temporary ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, an “experts committee” of the member states ...
Viewpoint: Examining the science denial behind IFOAM—Organics International
The true-believers in organic agriculture, such as the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM—Organics International), are as deluded as ...
Viewpoint: GMO critic Vandana Shiva’s anti-modernity crusade threatens world’s poor
The recently-published “Social Justice Warrior Handbook,” which satirizes people who promote liberal, multicultural, anti-capitalist, anti-globalization, politically correct views, could have ...
Viewpoint: How politics pollutes the FDA’s genetically modified animal regulations and stifles innovation
AquaBounty's fast-growing salmon and Oxitec's disease-fighting mosquitos are two examples of why genetically modified animals should be regulated by the ...
Viewpoint: It’s time to fix flawed regulations and labels based on ‘utterly meaningless’ GMO term
“GMO” is an utterly meaningless term -- which is remarkable considering that if you Google it, you get about 21,000,000 ...
Transforming modern medicine doesn’t have to be high tech or expensive
While intricate high-tech breakthroughs are incredible, it's important to realize the value of low-cost and low-tech ingenuity ...
Viewpoint: This flu season is a ‘wake-up call’—we need a universal flu vaccine
Editor's note: Henry I. Miller, a physician, molecular biologist and former flu virus researcher, is the Robert Wesson fellow in scientific ...
Viewpoint: Russia Today’s ‘fake news’ about GMOs is a strategic attack by Putin on US science and technology
On Sunday [Jan. 7], CBS’s 60 Minutes ran a segment on the propaganda role of Russian news network RT, or Russia Today. ... RT, the ...
Viewpoint: Misguided activism imperils potential of golden rice
Golden rice has the potential to solve a significant health problem in developing nations, where hundreds of thousands of children ...
Viewpoint: Why so many scientific studies are flawed and poorly understood
With misleading conclusions often reported from scientific research, it's important to be able to discern between legitimate studies and dubious ...
Viewpoint: FDA regulations ‘a disaster’ for genetically modified animal research
The Trump Administration and Congress should rein in the FDA's regulatory overreach on genetically engineered animals, which is stifling important ...
When genetic engineering came of age: World’s first GMO—GE insulin—approved 35 years ago
It has been 35 years since genetically engineered insulin was approved by the FDA in a process that was quick ...
Viewpoint: Overly strict human gene-editing regulations let patients suffer and die
[Editor’s note: Henry Miller is a physician and molecular biologist, and a Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He ...
Viewpoint: Outdated regulations responsible for recall, destruction of harmless GE petunias
An outdated policy leading to the destruction of 50 varieties of harmless flowers provides evidence that regulatory GMO practices need ...
Viewpoint: Why the FDA should not be regulating genetically engineered animals (as drugs, no less)
[Editor's note: Henry Miller is founding director of the FDA's Office of Biotechnology. John Cohrssen is former counsel to the White ...
Viewpoint: On GMO regulation, USDA hits the ‘cluelessness trifecta’
Editor's note: This story previously appeared at Forbes and has been republished here with the author's permission. Federal officials sometimes ...
Opinion: Why the National Organic Program’s funding should be eliminated, not just cut
[Editor's note: Henry Miller is a physician and molecular biologist, and a Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He ...
Federal subsidies to organic agriculture should be plowed under
This article originally appeared at Forbes and has been republished here with permission. The House Committee on Appropriations is scheduled ...
Viewpoint: Neonic study makes a splash in the headlines but trashes science
This article originally appeared at Forbes and has been republished here with the author's permission. Researchers in the U.K. this ...
Opinion | Putin’s ‘sock puppets’: How Russia ‘uses’ anti-GMO activists to undermine crop biotech and science
In its promotion of 'fake news,' Russia is committed to undermining US technological advantages by using anti-GMO activists to spread ...
