“This may be the most important letter I’ve ever written,” declares People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) president Ingrid Newkirk in a September 27 fundraising letter.
Even though an academic study published by the prestigious British Medical Journal concluded that “consumption of candy was associated with greater longevity” and “non-consumers of candy ……
When Johns Hopkins University researcher Roland Griffiths released a study arguing that “caffeine addiction” should be recognized (alongside depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia) in the Diagnostic…
The Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals are fielding teams of fatsos and fatties. According to the government’s flawed definition, nearly every World Series player — 43 out…
Even as a new report from the National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy demonstrates the financial and environmental benefits of genetically engineered (GE) crops, anti-technology activists in…
The website of the grossly misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) currently features a screed in praise of rats. No kidding. Like baseball players…
An obesity researcher who’s pushed for Twinkie taxes, marketing prohibitions, and even zoning laws to restrict where restaurants and convenience stores are located has received a fat check from…
In an exercise in “statistical hocus pocus,” this summer a team of Harvard academics published a headline-grabbing soda slam in JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical…
In May, when we first broke the news that long-time Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) spokesman Dr. Jerry Vlasak openly endorsed murdering other doctors at…
Animal-rights activists cloaked as doctors were among the prominent speakers at the “2004 Healthy Lifestyle Expo” put on by VegSource, an on-line repository of animal-rights mythology closely connected…