Archive: Feb 2005

Washington Times: CDC Should Retract Obesity-Deaths Study

In what is becoming a blind quest to hype the nation’s fear of fat, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reached (yet another) new…
PostedFebruary 28, 2005 at12:00 am

Black-Market Bubble Gum

Draconian food-cop policies almost always have unintended consequences. Such is the case in Austin, Texas, where one high school’s ban on snack foods has created a thriving black market for…
PostedFebruary 24, 2005 at12:00 am

CCF Airs CDC’s Dirty Laundry

Trouble is brewing in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) own back yard. Today, the Atlanta Journal Constitution published an op-ed from the Center for Consumer…
PostedFebruary 23, 2005 at12:00 am

The Sharks Are Circling

Last month a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit against McDonald’s for supposedly making people fat. These days a coven of trial lawyers is plotting to sue the food…
PostedFebruary 22, 2005 at12:00 am

Confessions Of A Food Scaremonger

McDonald’s recently reached an $8.5 million settlement with a California lawyer after the restaurant chain didn’t replace the trans fat in its food on a previously announced…
PostedFebruary 21, 2005 at12:00 am

Father to PETA: Hands Off My Kid!

Paul Johnston of Middletown, Delaware is one ticked-off parent. And with good reason. As the Middletown Transcript reports, Johnston’s daughter — a student at Louis L. Redding Middle School —…
PostedFebruary 18, 2005 at12:00 am

Colorado Professor: We Have Not Yet Begun To Terrorize

Would Ward Churchill approve of violence against his colleagues at the University of Colorado who engage in research using animals? If you read his introduction…
PostedFebruary 17, 2005 at12:00 am

No Joke: Financial Conflicts Of Top Obesity Researchers

Industry-funded obesity researcher and statistician David Allison is responsible for the deeply flawed study which concluded obesity kills 300,000 in the U.S. each year. That was the basis for…
PostedFebruary 16, 2005 at12:00 am

CDC Must Retract Obesity Deaths Study

Trial lawyers and food cops spreading unwarranted hysteria over the nation’s so-called “obesity epidemic” have lost yet another leg to stand on. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
PostedFebruary 15, 2005 at12:00 am

CDC: Obesity-Death Estimate Has ‘Fundamental’ Problems

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has admitted that its report blaming obesity for 400,000 deaths a year has serious problems. As the Los Angeles Times…
PostedFebruary 10, 2005 at12:00 am