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No Room for Debate II
Read more: No Room for Debate IIThis is a sequel to my post yesterday about the Consumer Federation of America’s (CFA) decision to disinvite author of The Big Fat Surprise Nina Teicholz from the 2016 National Food Policy Conference. To recap: one of the panelists, Director of Nutrition Policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Margo Wootan, said that “concerns…
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No Room for Debate
Read more: No Room for DebateJournalist critical of 2015 United States Dietary Guidelines disinvited from speaking at the 2016 National Food Policy Conference [Updated: Read the UK responses to Bonnie Liebman’s email re: CSPI / Nina Teicholz retraction letter by clicking here] Nina Teicholz, journalist and author of The Big Fat Surprise, has been disinvited from a prestigious Washington, DC food…
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Changesbowie
Read more: ChangesbowieDavid Bowie 1947 – 2016 David Bowie was never much of a singer, at least not in the conventional sense. His shaky timbre, as ripe for parody as Bob Dylan’s nasally whine – whom he imitated as a fledgling folky – nevertheless stood out in the crowded musical marketplace of the late sixties. Armed with little…
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Another Big Fat Surprise
Read more: Another Big Fat SurpriseScientists who called for the retraction of an article by author of The Big Fat Surprise Nina Teicholz take credit for end to low-fat diet A scientific study examining the relationship between dietary fats and coronary heart disease (CHD) that featured in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) in October has been described as a “game…
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Disappearing Act
Read more: Disappearing Act18 co-signers of BMJ retraction request letter are now MIA I co-authored this item with U.S. (Atlanta, GA) investigative reporter Peter M. Heimlich, who’s cross-posting it at his world-beating blog, The Sidebar. On November 5, a letter signed by over 180 credentialed professionals, including a number of prominent faculty members at major universities, was sent…
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Oops, He Did It Again
Read more: Oops, He Did It AgainMore sockpuppetry by prominent Yale prof/author/columnist David L. Katz MD [UPDATED: Goodreads scrubbed his self-review] I co-authored this item with U.S. (Atlanta, GA) investigative reporter Peter M. Heimlich, who’s cross-posting it at his hard-hitting blog, The Sidebar. Peter first contacted me a couple months ago after I reblogged his September 30 item about Dr. David Katz…
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12 Words/Expressions to Avoid Part II
Read more: 12 Words/Expressions to Avoid Part IITo honour the Huffington Post’s shameful realisation of Poe’s Law,* my very own listicle. 1. Fuddruckers I don’t know what this is, but it sounds dirty. 2. Sorry You’re not sorry, stop saying sorry. 3. Champagne wishes and caviar dreams Things that were popular in the eighties. 4. Cavalier Sounds like caviar, annoying by association. 5. Sign language…
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