Losing More Than Weight: Unscientific “War” On Obesity Will Trim Personal Freedoms

By John C. Luik, an independent public policy researcher whose work focuses on the use of science in policy and the question of government intervention to change “risky” behaviors. He is a former Senior Associate of the Conference Board of Canada’s Niagara Institute, and is the co-author with Mike Waterson of the 1996 text “Advertising and Markets”.