HEALTH/SPORT

NYTimes ‘Black Women And Fat’ Writer Responds To Critics

May 10, 2012   ·   1 Comments

By Danielle Young: “Many black women are fat because we want to be,” Alice Randall stated in her NY Times Op-Ed piece that sparked a firestorm of online ...

Half the News That’s Fit To Print: NY Times On ECG Screening For Student Athletes

By Larry Husten: There may be no more horrifying medical catastrophe than the sudden death of a young athlete on the playing field in front of ...

Let’s Put an End to ‘Dietary Tribalism’

By Andy Bellatti: Every time I’m on social media, I am reminded of a growing trend that worries me — let’s call it dietary tribalism. I use ...

How the NY Times Got It Wrong on the FDA’s New Antibiotics Rules

By Tom Philpott: A casual reader taking in my account and the New York Times’ account of yesterday’s big FDA antibiotics announcement might have thought we were reacting to different events. ...

Anti-Castro Hysteria Leads to MLB Manager’s Suspension

By Michael McGehee: In Edgar Thompson’s and Juliet Macur’s article “Marlins Suspend Manager for 5 Games Over Pro-Castro Comments,” that was published on today’s front page ...

Ross Douthat Exposes the Great ObamaCare Subterfuge

By Marie Burns: Ross Douthat of the New York Times has discovered that health care is expensive. He would have known this sooner but for the “brilliance,” “genius,” “savvy” ...

The NY Times on ObamaCare Watch: Pt. 2

By Marie Burns: Yesterday we looked at how the news departments of the New York Times were covering the Republican Tea Party challenge to the Affordable ...

What’s Wrong with Only White Men Judging a Contest Defending Meat-Eating?

By Lori Gruen, A. Breeze Harper, and Carol J. Adams: This past week The Ethicist at The New York Times invited people to submit their defenses of meat ...

10 Suggestions for Female Judges for NY Times’ “Ethical Meat” Contest

By Michele Simon: Yesterday, I wrote about how the New York Times’ contest for meat eaters is great PR for the meat industry. Upon sending that missive to the Times, ...

The Ethics of Meat-eating: A Feminist Issue?

By Marion Nestle: Staunch feminist that I am, I am greatly enjoying the fuss over the all-male judging panel for the New York Times’ contest calling on “carnivores ...

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