In the ‘80s, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) sold several posters featuring information about nutrition and exercise to health-conscious consumers. But in recent years, that…
Last month we gave you a brief update on the latest chapter in anti-technology, “organic only” activism: the smear campaign against milk from cows supplemented with Recombinant Bovine Growth…
What does it take for a school to suspend an eighth-grader, bar his attendance from an honors dinner, and strip him of his post as class Vice President? If you…
Today, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on a city-wide menu labeling ordinance (a proposal to mandate in-your-face calorie counts on restaurant menus). By attempting…
It seems like only last week that the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) was raising money to “care for the dogs seized in the Michael Vick [dogfighting]…
Unable to persuade the public that high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is too unhealthy or too affordable, “all natural” food activists are launching another campaign against “the crack of…
A key quote from this morning’s Wall Street Journal: "Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior."…
Pity Briana Waters, maybe just a little bit. As she sat waiting for a jury to render a verdict in her Seattle eco-terror arson trial, another Earth Liberation…
As The Washington Times points out today, the gratuitous hype over mercury levels in fish is far from over. Flawed science journalism and an abundance of bad information from…
Yesterday, The New York Times covered a study that demonstrated “worrying about weighing too much may be bad for you, no matter how much you actually weigh.” This report…