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These days, you are under a constant barrage of abuse from TV and print media telling you about yourself. According to these messages, you're probably unhealthy, learning-disabled, or unfit. It’s very likely that you have an eating disorder, sleep disorder, or intestinal dysfunction. Even the products that make your life easier are in fact malignant polluters that are destroying the earth. In short, today’s ads and messages tell you that you’re likely to fall victim to some form of calamity from everything and everyone around you.
But most of the statistics that “prove” these points are based on false information. In fact, much of our national dialogue is informed by patently bad science - science that is trotted out by private (and public) organizations that leverage demonstrably untrue “facts” to bolster their own philosophies and fatten their own pocketbooks (or build their own empires).
With mounds of solid evidence that contradicts mainstream thought, Big Fat Liars shows the lies behind today's big issues and encourages readers to look through the money-motivated façade of statistics and government controls and return to a strong attitude of personal responsibility. Dr. Chafetz writes about why the "obesity epidemic" is about change in bookkeeping in a federal agency rather than a fatter population. Big Fat Liars also reveals that the same evidence used now to frighten us about "global warming" was also used a generation ago to frighten us about "global cooling." Order your copy of Big Fat Liars.
Visit the Discussion Blog. This blog is for discussion of the ideas raised in Dr. Chafetz' books "Big Fat Liars" and "The Tyranny of Experts." If it -- and the books -- succeed, you won't accept the things you are told until you have passed them through the filter of your own common sense.
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