John Luik is a Canadian philosopher with a history of vocally opposing government agency efforts to warn people about the health dangers of secondhand tobacco smoke. Luik was involved in a tobacco industry-coordinated attack on United States Environmental Protection Agency’s 1992 Risk Assessment on secondhand tobacco smoke.

Contestable Conclusions

The World Cancer Research Fund’s new report proclaims three truths about cancer, fat, and food. First, it asserts that being ...
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Nutrition labeling on menu boards and menus: a recipe for failure

Concern about the United States’ population’s weight gain has led to a variety of policy proposals about how best to ...
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Putting the government’s ignorance on display

In a recent piece in the London Review of Books, Ross McKibbin, commenting on the intellectual capacities of the current ...
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The hidden dangers of the smoking ban

In 1936, the American social scientist Robert Merton wrote an article in which he attempted to formalise what social scientists ...
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Who’s afraid of … being fat?

The last few weeks have been a tough time for the fatties among us - which is supposedly most of ...
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