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| 4/26/05 |
CDC Under Media Fire Over Bloated Obesity Deaths Stats
First in a Series: New York Times editorial says the Center for Disease Control has a lot of explaining to do. ABC News questions government’s credibility
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| 4/25/05 |
Obesity: Epidemic or Hype?
Today The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is running coast to coast full-page advertisements skewering obesity hype in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and right in the CDC’s own backyard in T
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| 4/20/05 |
Stonewalling: Why Won’t The CDC Endorse New Obesity Deaths Figure?
While CDC leaders were quick to publish and widely promote its flawed 400,000 deaths figure, they remain reluctant to acknowledge any figure that contradicts it.
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| 4/19/05 |
New JAMA Study Challenges CDC’s 400,000 Obesity Deaths Figure
Center for Consumer Freedom Asks CDC to Repudiate Its Contested Obesity Figure
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| 4/15/05 |
What Do Alec Baldwin and 95% of the Members of the “Physicians Committee” Have in Common?
Despite its attempt to portray itself as a mainstream medical charity, the animal-rights-oriented Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) acknowledges that its membership is almost completely comprised of individuals who don’t hold medical de
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| 4/14/05 |
“Physicians Committee” Awards Leader of Terror-Funding Foundation
In honor of PCRM’s 20th Anniversary, the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is shining a light on the group’s unholy alliances, suspect pronouncements, and questionable leadership.
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| 4/13/05 |
Physicians Committee for “Responsible” Medicine: 20 Years of Opposing Life-Saving Medical Research
This weekend, PCRM will celebrate 20 years of pursuing its misguided efforts against medical research. Hollywood stars like Alec Baldwin, Emmylou Harris, Ed Asner, and Noah Wyle have lent their names to the group’s black-tie birthday gala.
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| 4/11/05 |
CCF Available for Comment on 20th Anniversary of “Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine”
To “celebrate” PCRM’s birthday, the Center for Consumer Freedom is giving the “gift” of public information by releasing the updated “Seven Things You Didn’t Know About PCRM.”
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| 3/16/05 |
Senator Harkin Barkin’ up the Wrong Tree
Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) efforts to ban food advertising to children is the latest example of how policymakers are taking misguided approaches to address obesity.
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| 3/7/05 |
Dairy-Bashing “Physicians Committee” Is an Animal Rights Group
Responding to new anti-dairy article, CCF calls on "physicians committee" to come clean about its animal-rights motives.
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| 3/2/05 |
NFL: National Fatties League?
If someone claimed that the majority of the NFL’s defensive linemen were a bit heavy, few of us would be shocked. At the same time, most of us would laugh if we were told that Donovan McNabb, Steve McNair, Daunte Culpepper, and Corey Dillon were officiall
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| 3/1/05 |
The 4th Annual “Tarnished Halo” Awards
The Center for Consumer Freedom has announced the winners of the 4th Annual “Tarnished Halo” awards. The prizes are given annually to America’s most notorious animal-rights zealots, celebrity busybodies, environmental scaremongers, self-appointed “public
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| 2/18/05 |
Consumer Group: Get PETA Out Of Schools
Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) urged Dr. Sue Dutton, principal of Middletown’s Louis L. Redding Middle School, to remove animal rights materials from her school’s lesson plans.
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| 2/7/05 |
Will Smith: Hottie or Fattie?
Adoring fans headed to “Hitch,” which opens this weekend and stars Smith as a superstar of romance, may not be swept off their feet once they find out the star actor is officially fat, according to federal government standards.
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| 2/7/05 |
Super Bowl Blubber
Tom Brady’s Patriots may have edged out Donovan McNabb’s Eagles in their battle for NFL supremacy but both quarterbacks have lost the war against flab, at least according to the government’s standard.
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| 2/2/05 |
Award-Winning TV Ad Takes Swipe at Trial Lawyers and Obesity Lawsuits
As President Bush calls for an end to junk lawsuits during his State of the Union speech this evening, the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) airs an award-winning television ad that takes aim at trial lawyers seeking to cash in on the nation’s so-called “
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| 1/25/05 |
US Appeals Court Reinstates Frivolous Obesity Lawsuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District has overturned a judge’s ruling which dismissed a notorious 2002 lawsuit blaming McDonald’s for the weight of a handful of its customers.
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| 1/19/05 |
PETA President To Get a Taste of Her Own Medicine
Dressed as eco-terrorists, carrying comically large gasoline cans and matches, and holding a banner depicting an arson fire under the words "PETA's Kind Choice," representatives from the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) will gather to protest the Manhatt
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| 12/20/04 |
Leave Cookies for Santa Claus Without Fear of Obesity Lawsuit
In today’s era of frivolous lawsuits, serving the already obese Saint Nick baked goods could put you on the receiving end of a devastating lawsuit if he has a trial lawyer elf on retainer.
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| 12/13/04 |
Hail to the Blimp?
Even before his admission that he needed to lose the five pounds he had gained since his last physical, President Bush, surprisingly, has long been labeled “overweight” by the federal government over which he presides and would actually need to shed 20 po
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