Food Scares (page 47)

Slugging CSPI’s Salt Scare

“That bizarre collection of neurotics, nannies, killjoys, hysterics, and scolds better, if misleadingly, known as the Center for Science in the Public Interest, has dreamt up yet…
Posted March 28, 2005 at 12:00 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…
Posted February 21, 2005 at 12:00 am

CA Anti-Biotech Activist Sowing False Fears

In the neo-Luddites’ county-by-county campaign to ban genetically engineered (GE) crops in California, one activist has stumbled over his own rhetoric. According to GE-Free Sonoma County campaign coordinator…
Posted January 14, 2005 at 12:00 am

Latest Anti-Meat Study: The Real Story

Today’s newspaper headlines are blaring that eating red meat is somehow linked to colon cancer, but the meat of the matter tells a different story. An examination of the…
Posted January 12, 2005 at 12:00 am

Are The Lights On At the CDC?

Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) blew the lid off one of the nation’s most pressing public health scourges: Christmas lights. While you may think…
Posted December 10, 2004 at 12:00 am

Misplaced Pesticide Preoccupation

Last month, as thousands of public health professionals (read: professional nannies) converged on the nation’s capitol to hear Hollywood science “expert” Erin Brockovich keynote the annual…
Posted December 3, 2004 at 12:00 am

A Morning Jolt Of Common Sense

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…
Posted October 26, 2004 at 12:00 am

Hollywood Glitterati And NRDC

Tinseltown’s A-list is racing to see who can write the biggest checks to the food-scare artists at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). According to a recent…
Posted October 12, 2004 at 12:00 am

PETA Preys On The Gipper

The self-described “complete press sluts” at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have once again crossed the line of decency, this time adding insult to the injury of…
Posted August 18, 2004 at 12:00 am

Don’t Worry, Eat Happy

Everywhere we turn these days, we’re confronted with another dire warning to stop eating something, lest that something harm us and everyone we care about. We are told that most…
Posted February 17, 2004 at 12:00 am