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Assume a can opener

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On July 30, 2009
Of all the absurd aspects of present panic over fat, the most absurd is the idea that it makes sense to spend scarce public health resources on trying to make people thinner. We have no idea how to make fat people thin. This overwhelmingly obvious...

Driving them to drink

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On June 17, 2009

Following up on Dave's observations regarding doubts about the health benefits of moderate drinking:(1) The politics of epidemiology are most obvious when you see people treat relatively weak correlations from.

In search of lost Time

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On June 12, 2009

Radley Balko and Jeff Winkler stroll down Memory Lane at Time magazine, where moral panic isn't a sociological concept -- it's an exciting brand of contemporary journalism. I was at.

The price of moral panic

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On May 5, 2009
Certain candid obesity researchers will tell you in private, especially if you get a couple of G&Ts into them, that yeah, there really isn't any increased mortality risk associated with BMI at all until you get into the mid-30s, but still it would be good...

Oprah’s normal weight

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On January 14, 2009

The more one looks into this topic the more obvious it becomes that a concept like "normal weight" is so sociologically complex as to be practically meaningless.A couple of further.

The Stupidity Epidemic

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On October 22, 2008
This reads like a not-very-well-done parody of how the elite media reflect and magnify cultural obsessions with weight through pseudo-scientific musings about the supposed "obesity" epidemic.(Shorter version: Because individual birds and rats are more or less prone to being startled by their environment, and hormones...

Obesity Apocalypse

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On August 4, 2008
Even by the remarkably mendacious standards of the "obesity" racket some of the claims in this story are beyond belief.The most laughable is the idea that by 2048 everybody in the US will be "overweight" or "obese." This result was derived via statistical extrapolation, the...

The Real Drug War

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On July 30, 2008

A top government research scientist I know has a theory about the "obesity epidemic." Dr. X isn't allowed to speak on the record to the media about X's work without.

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