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Paul F. Stifflemire, Jr.
Paul F. Stifflemire, Jr. | June 29, 2004
     Close on the heels of the TIME/ABC News Obesity Summit in Colonial Williamsburg, new research may have discovered the possibility that the increase in the numbers of obese Americans could correlate closely…
Paul F. Stifflemire, Jr. | February 11, 2004
     Journalists are usually quite reserved about using the military as arbiters of scientific credibility. One may recall, for example, the outraged skepticism expressed over the Pentagons plans to study the…
Paul F. Stifflemire, Jr. | January 22, 2004
Two studies, one suggesting that 30 percent of US children surveyed reported eating fast food on at least one of the two days they were studied, the other claiming that our teenagers believe they are the…
Paul F. Stifflemire, Jr. | January 20, 2004
     Claims that global warming will cause mass extinction by 2050 were received with uniformly sympathetic coverage by media outlets. Newspapers in Britain, Canada and the United States featured stories…
Paul F. Stifflemire, Jr. | December 15, 2003
On Monday December 8 ABC offered a Primetime Special: Whos to Blame? Obesity in America: How to Get Fat Without Really Trying. Peter Jennings advanced the notion that assigning personal responsibility is the…
Paul F. Stifflemire, Jr. | December 5, 2003
Having already issued such gems as the following, we have to wonder why ABC is risking its glass house Monday night, December 8, palavering about how the obesity epidemic in the United States is the fault of…