The (Irrational) Fear of Pesticides

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

Preserving a Precious Natural Resource (Scripps Howard News Service, May 15, 2003)

Teddy Tackles the "Terrorists" – Anthrax? Insecticide? What’s the Difference? (American Outlook, Spring 2002)

Fear Not the Farms and the Fertilizer (National Post, May 11, 2001)

Give Him A Break: Stossel Sent To Scaffold For His Taboo Targets (Investor’s Business Daily, August 21, 2000)

Let Us Spray (Forbes, August 21, 2000)

Anti-science Policies from EPA (The Washington Times, July 18, 2000)

The Senate's Pests: Bill to Shield Kids Ignores Problem of Vermin and Bugs (Investor's Business Daily, June 5, 2000)

Biotech Food Fights May Be Over Soon as Facts Frustrate Fearmongers' Case (Investor's Business Daily, March 14, 2000)

Let's Hear It for Sound Science and Common Sense (Florida Grower, October 1, 1999)

Frog Follies (American Outlook, Summer 1999)

Baby Killer Or Just A Weed Killer? (Investor's Business Daily, August 4, 1999)

A Killer of Babies Or Just Weeds? (August 2, 1999) *** Longer version ***

With Frog Scare Debunked, It Isn't Easy Being Green (The Wall Street Journal, May 12, 1999)

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

Attack of the Killer Vegetables (The Washington Times, March 9, 1999) **With reaction and author response**

Fear of Fruit (The Wall Street Journal, February 26, 1999)

How Media Made Parkinson's A 'Man-Made' Disease (Investor's Business Daily, February 17, 1999)

Test Anxiety (Reason Magazine, December 1998)

Truth Disrupters (Forbes Magazine, November 16, 1998)

The Enviros Are Farmers' False Friends (1998)

Pesticides Are Not the Main Problem (The New York Times, June 30, 1998)

Environmentalist Mythology that Harms Kids (1998)

EPA Must Decide Whether Food Quality Act Protects Kids or Bugs (1998)

EPA's Pollution-Asthma Theory Is Full Of Bugs (1997)

Will the EPA Make America Safe for Cockroaches?(The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 1997)

Delaney Clause Is Nostalgia We Can't Afford (1996)

Study Finds Pesticides Not the Problem, Eating Habits Is (1996)

Farm Subsidies Subsidize Wetlands Destruction (1996)

Environmentalists' Dirty Attack on Clean Water Act (1996)

Our Stolen Future? Not Even Misplaced (1996)

Scare Tactics Pose Real Danger to Children's Health (1996)

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

The Anatomy of a Public Scare (Investor's Business Daily, July 16-23, 1993)

Mother Nature's Pesticide Factory (The New York Times, June 9, 1993)

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

From One Big Scare to Another – As 'Technophobia' Grows, Is Science The Loser? (Investor's Business Daily, February 23, 1993)

Leaders & Success: Bruce Ames (1992)

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

Michael Fumento has written extensively on pesticides and included an entire chapter to Alar in his book, Science Under Siege.

Read Michael Fumento's additional work on food irradiation, Alar, and environmentalism.