A Must-read from James Enstrom
<p align="justify">’Defending legitimate epidemiologic research: combating Lysenko pseudoscience’ is something that all FORCES visitors and all concerned citizens should read.</p>
Why Scientists Don’t Speak Up
<p align="justify">Interesting and powerful piece by Elizabeth Whelan on the abuse of science by institutions and the media, emphasising the woes that betide any who buck the party line.</p>
Magazine Gives Space to Anti-smoking Critic
<p align="justify"><em>Skeptic</em> magazine, bucking the standard media bias, has run a good article by Sidney Zion, a frequently harassed but stalwart critic of anti-smoking.</p>
Shut Down the Brain to Stop Smoking
<p align="justify">Here is the great discovery: "drug cravings can be ‘switched off’ by shutting down a key part of the brain." So you should kill your brain to satisfy those who prefer non-smoking to living and to thinking? Keep on smoking or you’ll become like them.</p>
FORCES International Reports SG to ORI
<p align="justify">A denunciation of the fraudulent report of the Surgeon General on the effects of passive smoking on health has been deposited with the Office for Research Integrity in Washington, DC. Several organizations have co-signed the official complaint.</p>
Filthy Social Marketing: The Beat Goes On
<p align="justify">Overweight persons beware. The Health Reich is after you.</p>
Bush Gets It Right V
<p align="justify">Democrats’ drive to finance expanded SCHIP health care for children with new cigarette and tobacco taxes has reached the zeal of a revival campaign.</p>
Salvo of Denunciations on ETS Misrepresentation
<p align="justify">Since Michael Siegel’s recent study on the ethics of antismoking groups there has been an echo of denunciations from a variety of media outlets. We connect with Siegel’s blog for further details.</p>
The Psycho Industry
<p align="justify">We came across a piece which appeared in the UK <em>Guardian</em> last year that’s really worth reading for the insight it gives into the defective mind of a health and environment freak. Author George Monbiot’s précis of his book <em>The Denial Industry </em>is a veritable masterpiece of compulsively combined conspiracy theories. Once we would have suggested Mister Monbiot be institutionalized, but in today’s Asylum Society, he gets published.</p>
Obituary: a good friend has passed away
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">It is with great sadness that we report that Warren Klass, a long-time correspondent of FORCES Canada, has just passed away. </span></p>