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Health Blog
“Safe Catch” tuna is here to save you… from what?
The Safe Catch tuna brand has stoked unwarranted consumer fear for years by pitching their product as containing “the lowest mercury of any brand.” The implication, without any scientific basis, i...
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Nutrition Blog
Marketing the Mercury Myth: This Time on Shark Tank
For years we’ve been telling you about how the Safe Catch company mantra feeds into the mercury fear-mongering nonsense that anti-tuna activists have been peddling for years. And we’ve illustr...
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Health Blog
Debunking AOL’s Pregnancy Myth
We read with interest an article featured on AOL (originally on Mic.com) titled: 5 myths about what pregnant women can and can't eat, debunked. The first myth debunked is that pregnant women can...
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Uncategorized Blog
The Environmental Working Group
The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a Washington-based environmental lobbying organization, claims its mission is “to see that Americans get straight facts, unfiltered and unspun.” But EWG does...
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Health Blog
I believe the saying is “Told Ya”
Today we read that a group of doctors is petitioning Columbia University to remove Dr. Mehmet Oz from his faculty position because of his "egregious lack of integrity." "Dr. Oz has repeatedly sho...
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Health Blog
March 13, 2015 Kim Rozenfeld Executive Vice President of U.S. Current Programming Sony Pictures Television VIA EMAIL Dear Kim: I am writing to ask you to address the continued promotion ...
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Health Blog
NYT Well Blog Promotes Contrived Controversy
The latest edition of the New York Times Well Blog highlights blogger Tara Parker-Pope's unwillingness to accept the current state of science about seafood, a trait seen all too often in myriad enviro...
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Health Blog
The Activist-Led Panic Against Mercury In Fish Is Harming The American Diet
This Op-Ed was published in Forbes on 9/19/14: GUEST POST WRITTEN BY Gavin Gibbons Mr. Gibbons is vice president of the National Fisheries Institute. Next week, the Environmental Pro...