About the Author
Richard Williams
Richard Williams is a senior affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and former director for social sciences at the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
- Are We Entering the ‘Age of the Individual?’
- Two Films Offer Hope for a Divided Country
- Marie Kondo for OMB?
- Still Navigating the Shining Seas
- How Agencies Can Help Small Business
- Times Like These Call for Will Rogers
- Mister Rogers Had It Right: Trust in Your Neighbors
- Should We Fight Obesity or Accept It? Both.
- There’s No Federal Cure-All on Nutrition
- Time to Replace the Word ‘Sustainable’
- The ‘I’ Factor
- National Nutrition Month Should Focus on Innovation
- Forget Nutrition Labels — When Will Real Obesity Solutions Emerge?
- Putting Faith in Improved Nutrition Labels Still Misguided
- Get Bureaucrats Out of Medical Decisions
- Should the Government Have a Monopoly on Public Health?
- The FDA and Shkreli’s Sunken Treasure
- The Martian vs. the FDA on How to Science S#!t.
- Opinion: Toxicity, Too Much of a Good Thing?
Inside Exclusives
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HOLY COW! HISTORY: How the Nazis Helped a Brit Soldier Get England’s Top Medal
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Sen. Warren’s New IRS Legislation Is out of Touch With Voters
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Is Any Ruling Settled Law?
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Israel Is Not an Apartheid State
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Tackling the Opioid Epidemic by Giving Americans Alternatives
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Outbox vs. USPS: How the Post Office Killed Digital Mail (Updated)
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Joe Biden’s Draft Record Looks a Lot Like Donald Trump’s. Do Democrats Care?
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Why It’s Good to Be 30 Years Old, Single, Childless, Renting, and Deep in Student Loan Debt
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Silent Sound Kills
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Why Freedom of Speech Matters
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The Political Pill for COVID
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Exclusive: Survey Finds Turmoil in Postal Workforce
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Opinion: Donald Trump Is a Disaster
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Fact Check: The Confusing Hedge Fund Rhetoric in the 2016 Campaign
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