The Coca-Cola 'exposé' had all the spin of a classic anti-sugar smear piece
The Times ran an 'exposé' of Coca-Cola funding of scientists last week which was similar to the New York Times…
The EU's attack on e-cigarettes will bring a golden age of vaping to an end
Walking down most British high streets you could be forgiven for thinking that e-cigarettes are more common than tobacco. It's…
On e-cigarette safety The Lancet has decided to shoot the messenger
So the pushback begins. An anonymous editorial in The Lancet today wields the hatchet at the recent Public Health England…
George Monbiot says obesity is an 'incurable disease'. Here is what's wrong with his evidence
In the pages of the Guardian today, George Monbiot claims that 'obesity is an incurable disease' that 'resembles cancer'. Needless…
Australia's shark-punching outlaw spirit is losing its battle with the nanny state
Last September, a 20-year-old man was retrieving a goose he had shot in Australia's Northern Territory when a crocodile dragged…
Stop telling us that minimum alcohol pricing 'works in Canada'. It's nonsense
One of the abiding myths about minimum pricing for alcohol is that there is real world evidence from Canada that…
The BBC swallows more fanatical nonsense from Action on Sugar
Action on Sugar, the bastard offspring of Consensus Action on Salt, has noticed that dried fruit contains sugar. As with…
The new ban on 'legal highs' is unworkable. The government doesn't even know what it's banning
The man in the pub's solution to the ongoing panic about legal highs is to ban them. 'Ban 'em all!…
A tax on sugar won't work, as the shipwreck of the Danish 'fat tax' shows
Bad ideas die hard in the world of 'public health', especially when the government can make money out of them.…
Ten years on, the public health puritans who predicted 24-hour drinking look like idiots
One of the many old temperance beliefs that linger on in the field of 'public health' is known as availability…
Obesity isn't a 'disease', whatever the American Medical Association may think
This week, The Guardian informed us, a study revealed the 'scale of the British public's denial about weight problems'. Data…
'Binge Britain' has ended. Get over it
A certain amount of amnesia is required if you are to believe everything the 'public health' lobby tells you. Alcohol…