Comments on: Soda suits: Banzhaf browbeats school officials

By: PointOfLaw Forum

PointOfLaw Forum — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:06:51 +0000

Center for Science in the Public Interest caught red-handed

AEI research assistant Phil Wallach writes, catching the Center for Science in the Public Interest red-handed, if not red-faced:…

By: Overlawyered

Overlawyered — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 01:46:10 +0000

Paul Harris show on food nannyism

Yesterday I was a guest on Paul Harris’s radio program (KMOX St. Louis) to discuss the latest push for government regulation and courtroom action over tempting and calorie-laden items found in the refrigerator, in particular…

By: George Wallace

George Wallace — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:06:55 +0000

Jacob Sullum, writing in Reason Magazine's Hit and Run weblog last week about a ban on free samples of baby formula in Massachusetts hospitals -- Gov. Mitt Romney has now come out in opposition to the ban, which is intended to encourage breast feeding by making the alternative as inconvenient as possible -- summed up anti-soft drink hysteria nicely:

Anne Merewood, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, tells Reuters: 'We don't feel it is a good public health policy to give them out. New mothers are a vulnerable group and this is pure marketing. These are brand name products from the hospital. It looks like the hospital is endorsing it. It's like putting Pepsi-Cola machines in the schools.' It is noteworthy, by the way, how quickly soda machines in schools have become a paradigmatic public health hazard, similar to open sewers or plague-carrying rats.