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Time Magazine: Alternating Scare Journalism With Miracle Cures Since 1923

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
June 13, 2014
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Submitted by Hank on Fri, 06/13/2014 - 05:48
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The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is a group that is basically right on a big issue - the freedom of family farms and consumers - and then takes that libertarian philosophy and does something really wrong with it: they think there is some natural right to foist off raw milk on a public which, let's face it, is not agrarian any more. Raw milk will make a lot of people sick, especially if it is embraced by the anti-science/nutritionist/fad diet segment.

But they have a funny graphic which is correct, namely that relying on mainstream journalism, with its swinging pendulum of Miracle Vegetables And Cancer Causing Products, is a big mistake.

To wit, TIME magazine:


H/T Bart Leahy

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