15 Oct OP-ED: The misappropriation of USDA dietary guidelines
New Trump administration USDA guidelines are keeping in a long, depressing tradition of allowing lobbyists to dictate what we eat, laments renowned US food writer, Mark Bittman.
11 Oct Sloppy science bears substantial blame for Americans’ bad eating habits
A spectacular case of sloppy science came crashing to a close last month. Cornell University’s Brian Wansink (above), a world-renowned scientist who seized headlines with his research on American eating habits, had many of his papers retracted and resigned from his professorship.
16 Aug Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science
Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? In this entertaining TED lecture, UK doctor, epidemiologist and famous pseudoscience buster, Ben Goldacre, shows, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted,...