In 2002 journalist Gary Taubes wrote a very influential article titled “What If It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?” about how institutional science clings to the myth that fat harms your health despite substantial science to the contrary. So I was looking forward to his article in last Sunday’s New York Times titled “Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy?”

What a disappointment. [Read more…]

A buzz began a few weeks ago among people concerned about the spread of wireless technologies. Germany’s Green Party asked its Federal Government to formally take a position. The Government responded by saying that people should use wired connections when it is at all possible in order to avoid exposure to radio frequency radiation. [Read more…]

Yesterday, the Associated Press reported presidential candidate John Edwards as saying that his version of universal health care would make preventive care mandatory. “If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.” The example he is reported as giving is “that women would be required to have regular mammograms.” [Read more…]