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Recommendations for readers

A great number of authors has contributed to the philosophy and to the policy proposals of the CFACT Europe website. The list below contains those books and other texts that have inspired us over the years. As consensus is hardly known in any academic discipline (and may not be confused with compromise in politics), we however emphasize that the views expressed by the authors of the texts below are the views of independent personalities and might therefore not necessarily express the views of the Board and the Advisory Board of CFACT and CFACT Europe.

2005

Tom Bethell; The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science; Washington D.C.: Regnery.

2004

Bialy, Harvey; Oncogenes, Aneuploidy and AIDS: A Scientific Life and Times of Peter H. Duesberg; Berkeley: North Atlantic Books.

Crichton, Michael; State of Fear; New York: HarperCollins.

Easterbrook, Gregg; The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse; New York: Random House Trade.

Hayden, Howard; The Solar Fraud; Pueblo West, CO: Vales Lake Publishing.

2003

Bradley, Robert L. Jr.; Climate Alarmism Reconsidered;London: Institute of Economic Affairs. Bradley is president of the Institute for Energy Research, Houston, Texas. y

Driessen, Paul; Eco-Imperialism. Green Power - Black Death; Bellevue, WA: The Free Enterprise Press.

Gough, Michael, ed.; Politicizing Science: The Alchemy of Policymaking; Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press.

Juberg, Daland; Are Children More Vulnerable to Environmental Chemicals? Scientific and Regulatory Issues in Perspective; New York: American Council on Science and Health.

Walberg, Herbert J. and Joseph L. Bast; Education and Capitalism: How overcoming our fear of markets and economics can improve America's schools; Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press.

2002

Bailey, Ronald; Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths: How the environmental movement uses false science to scare us to death; Washington, DC: Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Beckerman, Wilfred; A Poverty of Reason: Sustainable development and economic growth; Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute.

DeGregori, Thomas; Bountiful Harvest: Technology, food safety and the environment; Washington, DC: Cato Institute.

Johns, Gary; Corporate Social Responsibility or Civil Society Regulation? Melbourne, Australia: Institute of Public Affairs, Hal Clough Lecture.

Mitra, Barun and Richard Tren; The Burden of Malaria; Delhi, India: Liberty Institute, Occasional Paper 12.

Morris, Julian; Sustainable Development: Promoting progress or perpetuating poverty? London: Profile Books.

2001

Goklany, Indur M.; Economic Growth and the State of Humanity; Bozeman, MT: Political Economy Research Center.

Henderson, David; Misguided Virtue: False notions of corporate responsibility; London: Institute of Economic Affairs.

Johns, Gary; Protocols with NGOs: The Need to Know; Melbourne, Australia: Institute of Public Affairs, IPA Backgrounder, Vol. 13/1.

Lomborg, Bjorn; The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the real state of the world; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Milloy, Steven: Junk Science Judo; Washington D.C.: Cato Institute.

Nichols, Nick; Rules for Corporate Warriors: How to fight and survive attack group shakedowns; Bellevue, WA: Merril Press.

Norberg, Johan; In Defence of Global Capitalism; Stockholm, Sweden: Timbro.

Paarlberg, Robert; The Politics of Precaution: Genetically modified crops in developing countries; Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Prasad, Rayasam; Collapse of a Dream: Social effects of economics in India and the world; Pittsburgh, PA: CeShore Publishing Company.

2000

Avery, Dennis; Saving the Planet with Pesticides and Plastic; Indianapolis, IN: Hudson Institute.

Bailey, Ronald, editor; Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet; New York: McGraw Hill.

Bradley, Robert L. Jr.; Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability; Washington, DC: American Legislative Exchange Council.

DeSoto, Hernando; The Mystery of Capital: Why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else; New York: Basic Books.

Fagan, Brian; The Little Ice Age: How climate made history, 1300-1850; New York: Basic Books.

Michaels, Patrick J. and Robert C. Balling, Jr.; The Satanic Gases: Clearing the air about global warming; Washington, DC: Cato Institute.

Moore, Stephen, Julian Simon and Rita Simon; It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 greatest trends of the last 100 years; Washington, DC: Cato Institute.

Narayan, Deepa; Voices of the Poor: Can Anyone Hear Us? Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rangan, Haripriya; Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History; New York: Verso.

Tren, Richard and Roger Bate; When Politics Kills: Malaria and the DDT story; Sandton, South Africa: Africa Fighting Malaria.

1999

Arnold, Ron; Undue Influence: Wealthy foundations, grantdriven environmental groups, and zealous bureaucrats that control your future; Bellevue, WA: Free Enterprise Press.

Milloy, Steven and Michael Gough; Silencing Science; Washington, DC: Cato Institute.

Pomerantz, Kenneth and Steven Topik; The World that Trade Created: Society, culture and the world economy: 1400 to the present; Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.

Williams, Walter E.; More Liberty Means Less Government: Our founders knew this well; Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, No. 453.

S. Fred Singer; Global Warming's Unfinished Debate; Oakland, CA: Independent Institute.

1998

Appleyard, Norman; Brave New Worlds: Staying Human in the Genetic Future; New York: Viking.

Gress, David: From Plato to NATO. The Idea of the West and Its Opponents; New York etc.: The Free Press.

Neal, Mark and Christie Davies; The Corporation under Siege: Exposing the devices used by activists and regulators in the non-risk society; London: Social Affairs Unit.

Sheehan, James; Global Greens: Inside the International Environmental Establishment; Washington, DC: Capital Research Center. The book includes appendix of environmental advocacy organizations and major foundation grants to them.

Simon, Julian; The Ultimate Resource 2: Natural resources, pollution, world's food supply, pressures of population growth. Every trend in material human welfare has been improving and promises to continue to do so, indefinitely; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Sternberg, Elaine; Corporate Governance: Accountability in the marketplace; London: Institute of Economic Affairs.

1997

Adler, Jonathan H., editor; The Costs of Kyoto: Climate change policy and its implications; Washington, DC: Competitive Enterprise Institute.

1996

Bast, Joseph L., Peter J. Hill and Richard C. Rue; Eco-Sanity: A commonsense guide to environmentalism; Lanham, MD: Madison Books (1994; second edition 1996).

Hodgkinson, Neville; AIDS: The Failure of Contemporary Science; London: The Fourth Estate.

Duesberg, Peter H.; Inventing the AIDS Virus; Washington D.C.: Regnery.

1995

Duesberg, Peter H.: Infectious AIDS: Have We Been Mislead? Berkeley, North Atlantic Books.

Easterbrook, Gregg; A Moment on the Earth: The coming age of environmental optimism; New York: Viking Books.

Hagen, Eric W. and James J. Worman; An Endless Series of Hobgoblins: The Science and Politics of Environmental Health Scares; Irvington-on-Hudson: Foundation for Economic Education.

1993

Friedmann, John and Haripriya Rangan; editors; In Defense of Livelihood: Comparative Studies on Environmental Action; West Hartford, CT.: Kumarian Press.

Fumento, Michael; Science Under Siege: Balancing Technology and the Environment; New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.

1991

Desowitz, Robert S.; The Malaria Capers: Tales of parasites and people; New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Huber, Peter; Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom; New York: Basic Books.

Russell, Jeffrey Burton; Inventing the Flat Earth; New York: Praeger.

1990

Schall, James Vincent; Religion, Wealth and Poverty; Vancouver, BC: Fraser Institute.

1987

Arnold, Ron; Ecology Wars: Environmentalism As If People Mattered; Bellevue, WA: Free Enterprise Press.

1986

Gough, Michael; Dioxin, Agent Orange: The Facts. New York: Plenum Press.

Rosenberg, Nathan and L.E. Birdzell; How the West Grew Rich: The economic transformation of the industrial world; New York: Basic Books.

1985 and before

Bastiat, Frederic; The Law; Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Freedom (1950).

Beckmann, Petr: The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear; Boulder, CO: Golem Press (1977).

Burke, Edmund; Reflections on the Revolution in France And on the Proceeding in Certain Societies in London Relative to That Event in a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris; London (1790).