That’s fine, at least as you think. The rule now is: no libertarian must complain that climate scientists or greenies having vested interests in promoting AGW.

What the? Where do you expect them to work? Anorexia clinics?

This just in – many doctors apparently work in hospitals, mechanics are mostly seen working in garages, and many drug researchers work for drug companies.

Playful sarcasm aside, I’m broadly in agreement with DocBud – anecdotally, I just don’t see an increase in fat kids. Adult obesity is another thing, but that’s slightly tangential to the topic, and I don’t want Andrea to get twitchy.

BTW, the obesity problem is a largely a myth,even recent Aus research indicated it is too much overblown. For some people there is always some bloody social disaster on the horizon and in my opinion those people are a social disaster.

Docbud, where do those stats come from? In The Obesity Myth, the author makes an interesting observation: many obesity researchers work for obesity clinics. Oh but the precious scientific method, it has all been peer reviewed in double blind clinical trials how can that be wrong? After you’ve read enough epidemiological studies you realise these are not so much a blunt stick approach as too often being a bent stick approach.