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Michael Fumento

Michael Fumento is a journalist, author, and attorney who specializes in health and science. He can be reached at Fumento[at]gmail.com.

Most Recent Articles by Michael Fumento:

EU ban on travel from U.S. relies on misleading coronavirus data, punishes testing gains

EU ban on travel from U.S. relies on misleading coronavirus data, punishes testing gainsWith the number of reported coronavirus infections rising in the U.S., the  European Union on Tuesday adopted recommendations extending travel restrictions that effectively ban non-essential American business and leisure travelers. The ban would remain in effect until the U.S. infection rate falls to a level comparable to or lower than the European rate and the number of new cases nationwide starts trending downward. 
- Wednesday, July 1, 2020

The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence

The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is cool. I often have to write in different languages and was shocked to find that overnight Google Translate went from being a joke to "knowing" even my best foreign language better than me.
- Thursday, March 8, 2018

Tariffs Cry "Blame Canada!" But Everyone Will Suffer

President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose a stiff 25 percent duty on imports of steel and 10 percent on aluminum. This shortly after slapping heavy tariffs on washing machines and solar panels. Even those with protectionist inclinations need to know these metals aren't the industries to protect. Few mining jobs would be saved, while the cost of finished goods will rise and encourage offshoring. And in terms of trade war, it looks to be the equivalent of Sarajevo in June 1914.
- Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Trump Right to Take Hatchet to International "Orbital Turkey"

Trump Right to Take Hatchet to International Orbital Turkey Houston, we have a problem. That's the way boosters of the International Space Station (ISS) see reports that the forthcoming Trump Administration budget essentially eliminates NASA funding for the orbital International Space Station (ISS) after the current authorization ends in 2024.
- Friday, February 23, 2018

New Import Duties Will Harm U.S. Consumers and Companies

New Import Duties Will Harm U.S. Consumers and Companies President Trump, with a nice big push from the U.S International Trade Commission (ITC), has slapped duties on two vastly different imports, solar panels made in China and all washing machines regardless of country. And that ITC has done him--and us--wrong.
- Saturday, February 10, 2018

Don't Panic Over the Latest Flu Fraud

Don't Panic Over the Latest Flu Fraud Flu fear is in the air! Emergency rooms are swamped. Sore throat? Nasal congestion? Get thee to the hospital! Now! We know we should believe this because the media tell us so.
- Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Why No "Berlin Airlift" for Puerto Rico?

In June 1948, Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. Within two days the US and UK air forces had begun a supply chain from bases in in western Germany, maintaining it until May the following year. In all, the Berlin Airlift delivered 2.4 million tons of food and supplies under hostile conditions to about 2.5 million people, including all their food, gasoline, and coal for heating and electricity generating.
- Thursday, October 5, 2017


The Immorality of U.S. HIV/AIDS Overspending

Seven of 22 the members of The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS have now resigned. This was one of those public displays of moral exhibitionism to which we've become accustomed: They announced their rationale in a Newsweek op-ed, writing that they can no longer be effective under a "president who simply does not care."
- Tuesday, July 25, 2017

How the Asbestos Hysteria Led to the Grenfell Tragedy

There was no single cause of the tragic 24-story Grenfell Tower conflagration in London. The British newspaper The Telegraph lists eight factors, including lack of dual staircases, lack of sprinklers both outside and inside, and sub-standard fire doors--none of which at this time appear to have violated the law. But nothing contributed more to the sheer speed of the spread, blocking both exits and preventing rescues, and hence the horrific death toll, than what's called "cladding." That's a covering or coating on the structure.
- Saturday, June 24, 2017

The Paris Agreement Had No Teeth

The Paris agreement had no teeth. It was voluntary. Double voluntary, in fact. Nations could choose their reduction levels and there was no enforcement mechanism. Nevertheless, the U.S. withdrawal has prompted warnings of environmental catastrophe, with David Gergen calling it “one of the most shameful acts” in America’s history.
- Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Gunshot, not Lethal Injections, Is Most Humane

Lethal injection executions, back in the news, just aren't working. For a variety of reasons. While they are bloodless (so is strangulation, starvation, and being broken on the wheel), it appears they often are not painless. They most certainly are not quick, sometimes taking hours. They arguably violate the Hippocratic Oath in having a doctor perform them, yet you hardly want an amateur to perform them. And drug companies don't want their products associated with causing death. Go figure!
- Wednesday, May 3, 2017

How the United Passenger Suckered Us

You've been snookered folks! By that poor elderly doctor who was involuntarily dragged from his seat, had his face smashed in, and was beaten unconscious by the evil airport security at the behest of United Airlines. Because there's no evidence any of that was true. It was in fact a premeditated temper tantrum gone viral, comprising one 69-year-old Vietnamese-American David Dao, a medical doctor who lost his license, planning a lawsuit from the moment United first politely asked him to give up his seat.
- Sunday, April 16, 2017


The Weighty Issue of Body Armor and Women in Combat

The highly emotional debate over whether women should be allowed in combat positions in the U.S. military is back. The latest firefight was prompted when the only female officer enrolled in the Marine Corps' Infantry Officer Course dropped out after failing to complete two conditioning hikes, according to Corps' Training and Education Command. As a result, "There are no female officers enrolled or slated to attend" the course. Hillary Clinton, of course, supports it, because she's a "huge supporter of women being able to break whatever glass ceilings are holding them back." But so, alas, does Donald Trump.
- Friday, September 2, 2016


Major League Baseball Throws a Spitball at Puerto Rico

It's a common theme of mine that the American spirit is growing steadily weaker. One way in which we see that is the propensity to become hysterical at the least provocation, the proverbial elephant afraid of the mouse. Witness the ongoing hysteria over the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
- Saturday, May 14, 2016

We Cannot Afford “Free” Wind and Solar Energy

While driving the mostly empty and flat 1,000 miles from Houston to Colorado Springs recently, I noticed something I hadn’t seen much just a few years ago --lots of wind farms dotting the landscape, but none anywhere near even small population centers. And another funny thing, though: Invariably, many of the turbines weren’t moving and one of the largest appeared to have about 100 turbines, yet I counted just three in action.
- Saturday, March 12, 2016

Oh Zika, Where Is Thy Sting? (Not in the US or Canada)

The buzz is that everyone is at risk for contracting the mosquito-borne Zika virus. Why not? Since the successful effort to “democratize” HIV/AIDS in the 1980s as a threat to everyone, everywhere, every major disease outbreak has been presented as a worldwide threat. (Ebola’s gotten that treatment three times now.)
- Thursday, February 18, 2016


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