By Hans Bader I lost ten pounds in the summer that I worked at McDonald’s, eating there all the time. Yet, people try to blame fast-food restaurants for their obesity. It’s one of the “myths about fast food” discussed this week in the Washington Post, which observes that “just eating burgers does not cause obesity.”…
Whitney Tipton Republish Reprint House Democrats on Monday set aside $50 million in their initial labor, health and education bill to study gun violence, ending a 20-year congressional hold on the subject. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will split the money to study firearm injury…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Elias J. Atienza Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) took aim at the government’s attempt to make tomatoes taste better. The National Science Foundation spent $1.5 million trying to improve the taste of the vegetable (technically a fruit as Paul notes) and the libertarian-leaning Republican blasted it in his Waste Report…
By Luke Rosiak Federal grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) bankrolled studies to discover that fraternity brothers like to drink, that “Jaws” is a scary movie, that little girls like Barbie dolls and that most people generally fear pain at the dentist. These and other taxpayer-funded academic studies were highlighted Tuesday in…