ALCOHOL DEPICTION ON SCREEN MAKES YOUNG MEN DRINK MORE, STUDY FINDS

‘’TV boozing may drive you to drink’’ reads the Chronical Herald article headline. It goes on explaining how watching movies that depict dr...

THIS STUDY TAKES THE HIGH CALORIE CAKE

We actually had to check the URL of this article twice to make sure we were not into some hoax, or prank website before believing that what ...

SHE WILL NEVER SURRENDER, WILL YOU?

The following opinion piece that appeared in the January 9th edition of the Windsor Star, sums up exactly what is wrong with the healthist m...

WE HAVE WAYS TO ASSIMILATE STUPID PARENTS!

Some Washington and Minnesotan white coat healthists, have surveyed 46 parents of allegedly overweight children and declared that parents un...

TWO POLITICAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE

It is happy hour in the wonderful world of politicized science! Two political statements for the price of one! Obesity has now been linked t...

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS

Back in March, we brought to the attention of our French speaking readers the misinformation on obesity because of various statistical biase...

THE SILLY SILLY ''SCIENCE'' PARADE

Clearly, less and less people pay attention to the epidemiological findings galore in the media. An increasing number of ordinary citizens a...

CORRUPTING THE ''SCIENCE''

We have extensively covered and explained the various biases of epidemiology on our main site and on this blog. We have demonstrated how sc...

BIG PHARMA INFLUENCE MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO OUR HEALTH

JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 99, April 6, 2008, includes an article on The Adverse Effects of Industry Influe...

HOW FAR A ''TYPO'' CAN GO

Amazing how far a ‘’typo’’ can go. Governments joined a ‘’bandwagon’’ based on an error that took four years to correct. The real question h...

SCIENCE BY PRESS RELEASE

Sometime ago Dr. Michael Siegel commented in his blog about a practice that he very accurately labeled: Science by Press Release. You can re...

ADJUSTABLE GASTRIC BANDING SURGERY

If any epidemiological study can be qualified as a marketing tool for a product or a service, in our opinion, the following study is so tran...

A STUDY PULLED OUT OF A HAT - UNE ÉTUDE SURPRISE ?

Selon ce que nous pouvons lire, l’étude qui suit a débuté en 1995 et a eu une durée de 3 ½ ans pour la version francophone et 4 ans pour la ...

LEGISLATING PLEASURE

Those who thought that because they don’t smoke and are not obese or overweight, all is well in the wonderful world of the health nanny soci...

THE CULT OF FEAR

Two articles, about the cult of fear, appear on the same day from two different parts of the world, on different newspapers, in two differen...

THE CANADIAN MEDIA ARE LAGGING BEHIND

November 9, 2007 - Scientists and the population in the U.S.A. are slowly but surely – none too soon -- awakening to the harsh reality that ...

IT IS TIME EPIDEMIOLOGY TAKES A FEW STEPS BACK

The ink of the latest report from the World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research urging us that in order to stay ...