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'''Roger Bate''' is an economist who has held a variety of positions in free market and conservative think tanks and ]. His current work focuses on U.S. and international aid policy, performance of aid organizations, and health policy in developing countries, particularly with regard to ] control and the use of ]. He also consulted for the ] industry,<ref></ref><ref>Roger Bate, "," The Prospect Online, May 2008.</ref> for approximately one month in 1998, on international health issues. '''Roger Bate''' is an economist who has held a variety of positions in free market and conservative think tanks and ]. His current work focuses on U.S. and international aid policy, performance of aid organizations, and health policy in developing countries, particularly with regard to ] control and the use of ]. He also consulted for the ] industry,though the extent of this work is disputed.<ref></ref><ref>Roger Bate, "," The Prospect Online, May 2008.</ref>


==Background== ==Background==
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==Passive smoking== ==Passive smoking==
There has been some controversy surrounding a book he attemped to fund in the 1990s. In 1996, Roger Bate approached R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for a grant of £50,000 to fund a book on risk, containing a chapter on ], also known as "second hand smoke" but the grant request was denied and the money was never received. (The Tobacco Institute, was however, "involved in" the publication of the book.) That same year he wrote the article "Is Nothing Worse Than Tobacco?," for Wall Street Journal and in 1997, the ESEF published ''What Risk? Science, Politics and Public Health'', edited by Roger Bate which included a chapter on passive smoking. There has been some controversy surrounding a book he attemped to fund in the 1990s. In 1996, Roger Bate approached R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for a grant of £50,000 to fund a book on risk, containing a chapter on ], also known as "second hand smoke" but the grant request was denied and the money was never received. (The Tobacco Institute, was however, "involved in" the publication of the book.) That same year he wrote the article "Is Nothing Worse Than Tobacco?," for Wall Street Journal and in 1997, the ESEF published ''What Risk? Science, Politics and Public Health'', edited by Roger Bate which included a chapter on passive smoking. After the publication of this chapter, according to Bate, he undertook a brief period consulting for the ] corporation He then approached ] seeking funding for the project on DDT and malaria, but received no reply. <ref>Roger Bate, "," The Prospect Online, May 2008.</ref>.

==Genetic Engineering== ==Genetic Engineering==
Bate is joint author, with ] of Fearing Food: Risk, Health and Environment. The ] website describes the book in the following way : "In the latest ] book, ''Fearing Food'', new agricultural and food technologies, including genetic engineering, are shown to be generally beneficial both to health and to the environment." (''Fearing Food'' was published by Butterworth-Heinemann in September 1999). Bate is joint author, with ] of Fearing Food: Risk, Health and Environment. The ] website describes the book in the following way : "In the latest ] book, ''Fearing Food'', new agricultural and food technologies, including genetic engineering, are shown to be generally beneficial both to health and to the environment." (''Fearing Food'' was published by Butterworth-Heinemann in September 1999).

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Roger Bate is an economist who has held a variety of positions in free market and conservative think tanks and lobby groups. His current work focuses on U.S. and international aid policy, performance of aid organizations, and health policy in developing countries, particularly with regard to malaria control and the use of DDT. He also consulted for the tobacco industry,though the extent of this work is disputed.

Background

Bate holds a Ph.D., economics from the University of Cambridge and was previously educated at University College, London and Thames Valley University. He was research analyst for Warburg Securities and Charles Stanley & Co. between 1986 and 1989 and later worked for a range of think tanks and lobby groups, and was also a presenter on the BBC2 program Organic Food: The Modern Myth

DDT

Bate is co-director of Africa Fighting Malaria, a lobby group promoting the use of DDT to control malaria. His motivation for promoting DDT has been called into question by many observers. For example, an article in the NRDC's magazine quotes Bate as saying, "DDT may be today's target, but it's not going to be long before chemicals that the industry cares about are added to the POPs Convention and other chemicals regulations,".

Swartz states

A funding pitch uncovered by blogger Eli Rabbett shows Bate’s thinking when he first started the project. “The environmental movement has been successful in most of its campaigns as it has been ‘politically correct,’” he explained (Tobacco Archives, 09/98) . What the anti-environmental movement needs is something with “the correct blend of political correctness ( . . . oppressed blacks) and arguments (eco-imperialism undermining their future).” That something, Bate proposed, was DDT.

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Passive smoking

There has been some controversy surrounding a book he attemped to fund in the 1990s. In 1996, Roger Bate approached R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for a grant of £50,000 to fund a book on risk, containing a chapter on passive smoking, also known as "second hand smoke" but the grant request was denied and the money was never received. (The Tobacco Institute, was however, "involved in" the publication of the book.) That same year he wrote the article "Is Nothing Worse Than Tobacco?," for Wall Street Journal and in 1997, the ESEF published What Risk? Science, Politics and Public Health, edited by Roger Bate which included a chapter on passive smoking. After the publication of this chapter, according to Bate, he undertook a brief period consulting for the Phillip Morris corporation He then approached Phillip Morris seeking funding for the project on DDT and malaria, but received no reply. .

Genetic Engineering

Bate is joint author, with Julian Morris of Fearing Food: Risk, Health and Environment. The IEA website describes the book in the following way : "In the latest ESEF book, Fearing Food, new agricultural and food technologies, including genetic engineering, are shown to be generally beneficial both to health and to the environment." (Fearing Food was published by Butterworth-Heinemann in September 1999).

Positions held

Articles

References

  2. Roger Bate, "DDT Works," The Prospect Online, May 2008.
  3. Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer?: The creation of an anti-environmental myth. Aaron Swartz, Extra!, September/October, 2007.
  4. Rehabilitating Carson, John Quiggin & Tim Lambert, Prospect, May 2008.
  5. Bad Blood, Kim Larsen, OnEarth, Winter 2008.
  6. Roger Bate, "DDT Works," The Prospect Online, May 2008.

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