Paul F. Stifflemire,
Jr.
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June 29, 2004
Close on the heels of the TIME/ABC
News Obesity Summit in Colonial Williamsburg, new research may have
discovered the possibility that the increase in the numbers of obese
Americans could correlate closely…
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February 11, 2004
Journalists are usually quite reserved about using the military as
arbiters of scientific credibility. One may recall, for example, the
outraged skepticism expressed over the Pentagons plans to study the…
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January 22, 2004
Two studies, one suggesting
that 30 percent of US children surveyed reported eating fast food on
at least one of the two days they were studied, the other claiming
that our teenagers believe they are the…
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January 20, 2004
Claims that global warming will cause
mass extinction by 2050 were received with uniformly sympathetic
coverage by media outlets. Newspapers in Britain, Canada and the
United States featured stories…
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December 15, 2003
On Monday December 8 ABC offered a
Primetime Special: Whos to Blame? Obesity in America: How to Get
Fat Without Really Trying. Peter Jennings advanced the notion that
assigning personal responsibility is the…
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December 5, 2003
Having already issued such gems as the
following, we have to wonder why ABC is risking its glass house
Monday night, December 8, palavering about how the obesity
epidemic in the United States is the fault of…