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Health Blog
NFI Op Ed Exposes Activists Who Put Politics Before Public Health
Heres an Op Ed that ran today in the Washington Times by NFI Vice President Mary Anne Hansan:HANSAN: Enviros to babies: We hope youre born dumbEco-falsehoods about mercury in fish expose activists who...
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Health Blog
Misinformation Lives On Even in Retirement
In case you came across this AARP blog posting today Just How Healthy is Seafood? You should know we did too. And we felt it was a touch light on well facts and science. So, NFIs registered dietitian ...
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Health Blog
When Science and Health are Collateral Damage
Consumers have been hammered over the last few weeks with a slew of common and calculated pieces of misinformation about mercury in seafood. Not as part of a public education campaign gone awry or fau...
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Health Blog
Sierra Club Uses Huffington Post to Peddle Distortions
Yesterday the Sierra Club posted about mercury on the Huffington Post and unfortunately they chose to make erroneous assertions about seafood throughout the column, rhetoric Huffington Post editors sh...
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Health Blog
Ghost of Terrible Ideas Past Haunts GotMercury?
A recent Associated Press article out of Milwaukee got me thinking about last years holiday season and how the misguided activist group GotMercury? decided it would be a good idea to ask charitable or...
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Sustainability Blog
When the Authors of the popular book Eat This Not That decided to take on fish this week apparently they also decided to abandon the idea that authors should a.) do research and b.) that said research...
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Health Blog
Sierra Club Out of Step with Science
The environmental group Sierra Club has long fought against pollution from power plants, but in its latest battle against coal, the group is using misguided rhetoric in an effort to link human exposur...
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Health Blog
No one likes being duped. But thats how it feels to read the posts on the blog, Moms Clean Air Force. The site appears to be a place where mothers share their experiences more or less spontaneously. O...
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Health Blog
The Next Generation of Misreporting
Its no secret that these days that news organizations, especially on line operations, are hungry for content and inexpensive ways to develop it. MSNBC.com appears to be harnessing the power of the eve...
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Health Blog
New York Times Hides Ignorance and Poor Research Behind Opinion
September 21, 2011John Geddes
Managing Editor
New York Times
VIA EmailDear Mr. Geddes,Today New York Times blogger Mark Bittman asks the question, is it Time to Boycott Tuna Again? His ...