Hollywood has been buzzing this week with a strange story about Liza Minelli’s husband David Gest, who runs several Tinseltown foundations in his spare time. It seems…
The food cops at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) undoubtedly uncorked the distilled water in celebration on Sunday, as The McLaughlin Group aired…
New York Times columnist Daniel Akst reported Sunday on a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) “working paper” blaming fast food restaurants for the perceived “epidemic” of obesity…
He has yet to win a single obesity-related lawsuit, but his royal litigiousness John Banzhaf is already planning for the next one — and the one after that. The…
Michael Jacobson sings the praises of lawsuits against restaurants in the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) most recent newsletter. After quoting John Banzhaf,…
Researchers at the University of Colorado are saying that the so-called “obesity epidemic” boils down to 100 calories a day. That’s the equivalent of a small cookie. It’s…
A U.S. District Court Judge tossed out a frivolous case against McDonald’s last week, but John Banzhaf, cheerleader-in-chief for fast food lawsuits, was hardly fazed. In fact, Banzhaf…
Lest we get too excited about yesterday’s dismissal of a patently absurd lawsuit filed against McDonald’s by a couple of overweight teens, it’s worth noting that…
Opportunistic trial lawyer John Banzhaf admitted in Men’s Health magazine last summer that suing restaurants for their customers’ obesity would be a stretch. “The biggest problem,”…
We’re not sure when Newsweek started publishing animal-rights propaganda, but its latest effort is on newsstands now. In an article called “New Ideas About Halting Diabetes,” Dr. Neal Barnard…
