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I believe the saying is “Told Ya”
Today we read that a group of doctors is petitioning Columbia University to remove Dr. Mehmet Oz from his faculty position because of his "egregious lack of integrity." "Dr. Oz has repeatedly sho...
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March 13, 2015 Kim Rozenfeld Executive Vice President of U.S. Current Programming Sony Pictures Television VIA EMAIL Dear Kim: I am writing to ask you to address the continued promotion ...
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NYT Well Blog Promotes Contrived Controversy
The latest edition of the New York Times Well Blog highlights blogger Tara Parker-Pope's unwillingness to accept the current state of science about seafood, a trait seen all too often in myriad enviro...
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The Activist-Led Panic Against Mercury In Fish Is Harming The American Diet
This Op-Ed was published in Forbes on 9/19/14: GUEST POST WRITTEN BY Gavin Gibbons Mr. Gibbons is vice president of the National Fisheries Institute. Next week, the Environmental Pro...
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The EWG Mercury Conspiracy Lives On
The professional fearmonger, anti-vaccination-conspiracy-theory-pusher, and all-around activist shop that is the Environmental Working Group (EWG) is out today with another addition to their collectio...
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A Few Retorts for Consumer Reports
A recent Consumer Reports article on tuna goes against the vast and continuously growing body of peer-reviewed research on the positive effects of seafood consumption on health. Despite our repeate...
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Question for Roberto A. Ferdman: What Is It That You Dont Understand?
Washington Post wonkblog writer Roberto A. Ferdman continues to write about canned tuna and continues to leave holes in his stories big enough to drive a truck through. This time he writes; Despite Co...
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Senator McCaskill to Dr. Oz: The scientific community is almost monolithically against you
Yesterday Dr. Mehmet Oz testified before a Senate committee about the accuracy of the medical advice he gives on his show. Readers of this blog would be shocked, SHOCKED to find that by his own admiss...
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The FDA’s Mountain of Evidence vs. Ned Groth and the Mercury Policy Project
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Has Trib reporter Hawthorne Joined the Ranks of Jenny McCarthy?
This week the FDA and EPA announced they had evaluated 110 published, peer-reviewed studies and concluded that pregnant women need to eat 4 times as much seafood as they currently do in order to reali...