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He is a frequent contributor to [[Forbes.com]] Science and technology section and has his own blog.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/|title=Contributor: Henry I. Miller|work==Forbes.com|date=n.d.}}</ref> On 10 Sep 2014, Henry Miller posted that there are far higher public health priorities to spend money on than Ebola.<ref>http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2014/09/10/there-are-many-far-higher-public-health-priorities-for-africa-than-ebola/</ref> He is a columnist for "Project Syndicate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/henry-i--miller|title=Henry I. Miller|publisher=Project Syndicate|date=n.d.}}</ref>. |
He is a frequent contributor to [[Forbes.com]] Science and technology section and has his own blog.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/|title=Contributor: Henry I. Miller|work==Forbes.com|date=n.d.}}</ref> On 10 Sep 2014, Henry Miller posted that there are far higher public health priorities to spend money on than Ebola.<ref>http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2014/09/10/there-are-many-far-higher-public-health-priorities-for-africa-than-ebola/</ref> He is a columnist for "Project Syndicate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/henry-i--miller|title=Henry I. Miller|publisher=Project Syndicate|date=n.d.}}</ref>. |
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Miller has been invited by the [[conservatism in the US|conservative]] think tank [[George C. Marshall Institute]] and is on record saying that "''environmental groups such as Greenpeace are using the[[precautionary principle]] to oppose development of those products and others that would improve agricultural productivity, [...] not because they are dangerous, but because they are at odds with a social vision that is “anti-business, anti-technology, and anti-American.''”<ref>{{cite web|author1=Duane D. Freese|title=Science Debunks Precautionary Principle|url=Science http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2004/02/01/science-debunks-precautionary-principle|accessdate=27 October 2014|date=February 1, 2004}}</ref> |
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Miller regularly appears on the nationally syndicated radio programs of [[John Batchelor]] and [[Lars Larson]].{{cn|date=October 2014}} |
Miller regularly appears on the nationally syndicated radio programs of [[John Batchelor]] and [[Lars Larson]].{{cn|date=October 2014}} |
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Henry Miller | |
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| Born | July 1, 1947 South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation(s) | Doctor and Educator |
Henry I. Miller is an American medical researcher and columnist, formerly with the FDA, the Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank located on the university's campus in California.[1]
Career
Miller was born on July 1, 1947 in South Philadelphia and raised there.
He was educated at M.I.T. (B.S. in Life Sciences) and the University of California, San Diego (M.Sc. and M.D.) and was a resident Clinical Fellow in Medicine[specify] and Beth Israel Deaconness Hospital. He performed research on gene organization and expression as a Research Fellow in the laboratory of Philip Leder M.D. at the National Institutes of Health and is the co-discoverer of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in influenza ("flu") virus.[2]
Miller was a civil servant for fifteen years at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He was the medical reviewer for the first genetically engineered drugs to be evaluated by the FDA and was instrumental in the rapid licensing of genetically engineered human insulin and human growth hormone. Thereafter[when?], he was a special assistant to the FDA commissioner and the founding director of the FDA's Office of Biotechnology.
Since coming to the Hoover Institution[when?], Miller has authored books and articles in scholarly journals, newspapers and online. He has been an Adjunct Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.[3] He also has been a director of American Council on Science and Health and is scientific adviser for the George C. Marshall Institute.
Selected publications
Monographs include "Policy Controversy in Biotechnology: An Insider's View";[4] To America's Health: A Model for Reform of the Food and Drug Administration;[5] and The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution.[6] which Barron's chose as one of the 25 Best Books of 2004.[7]
He is a frequent contributor to Forbes.com Science and technology section and has his own blog.[8] On 10 Sep 2014, Henry Miller posted that there are far higher public health priorities to spend money on than Ebola.[9] He is a columnist for "Project Syndicate.[10].
Miller regularly appears on the nationally syndicated radio programs of John Batchelor and Lars Larson.[citation needed]
Awards
Miller was the first recipient of an award named for him for Excellence in Public Health Education, from the American Council on Science and Health, 2008.[11] He was selected in 2006 by the editors of "Nature Biotechnology" as one of the people who had made the "most significant contributions" to biotechnology during the previous decade.[12]
References
- ^ "Henry I. Miller". The Hoover Institution. July 22, 2014.
- ^ "RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase Activity in Influenza Virions". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S. 1 June 1971.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|Aauthor=ignored (help) - ^ "Henry I. Miller". Competitive Enterprise Institute. n.d. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ^ Henry I Miller (January 24, 1997). Policy Controversy in Biotechnology: An Insider's View. Academic Press. ISBN 0124967256.
- ^ Henry I Miller (4 August 2000). "To America's Health: A Proposal to Reform the Food and Drug Administration". The Hoover Institution Press.
- ^ Henry Miller and Gregory Conko (2004). The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution. Praeger. p. 296. ISBN 0275978796.
- ^ "Barron's 25 Best Books of 2004". seeking alpha.com. 18 December 2004.
- ^ "Contributor: Henry I. Miller". =Forbes.com. n.d.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2014/09/10/there-are-many-far-higher-public-health-priorities-for-africa-than-ebola/
- ^ "Henry I. Miller". Project Syndicate. n.d.
- ^ "Scientists Honor Top Science Op-Ed Writer: Henry I. Miller". American Council on Science and Health. 7 May 2008.
- ^ Sabine Louet (1 March 2006). "Who's Who in Biotech" (PDF). Nature Biotechnology. 24 (3).