Irony

The “I See Dumb People…” photo would also be a nice illustration, but I’ll stick with the muffins. 

MSNBC advises you to “Beware the Hidden Agenda of ‘Experts’.”  For better or for worse, I found this article in the business section of MSNBC, not the health section.  They warn that financial ‘experts’ (and yes, they do use experts in quotation marks) may have hidden agendas and will give unhelpful advise to investors to further their own agendas. 

I would love to see this article written about diets, the obesity “epidemid” and all that silly stuff.  Awww… shucks… a lot of researchers that say diets are so great have hidden agendas and have financial ties to the weight loss industry.  Do you think that might color the way they report results or put together studies? 

MSNBC, it is not maverick journalism when you simply jump on the bandwagon that (as far as I know) Jon Stewart got rolling by taking on financial ‘expert’ Jim Cramer of ‘Mad Money’ fame.  You could’ve just made the headline, “Yeah… what he said!!”  If you wanna be a real mainstream maverick (as this stuff is all well known in the fatosphere), how about actually reading one of these diet or obesity studies and seeing what interesting ties diet proponents and obesity fearmongers might have. 

–AngryGrayRainbows