Tuesday, June 21, 2005by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: health news, Natural News, nutrition |
All too often, ideology gets in the way of sound science. We have long suspected this was the case with Morgan Spurlock and Super Size Me. His new show 30 Days, which premiered last night on the FX channel, provides plenty of confirmation for this concern.
In his new show, he spends thirty days living on minimum wage, trying to make the political case that the marketplace is unfair to minimum-wage workers. (It is easy to be compelling when you're the writer and the sympathetic subject.)
Yesterday's New York Times review of 30 Days hit the nail on the head when it said "Without [Spurlock's] humility, the show could have felt like a version of Wife Swap larded with rhetoric from the MoveOn.org website." Strip away that veneer of humility, and even the Times would have to admit the show is heavy-handed political advocacy.
That brings us back to Super Size Me. Spurlock himself has said, "Getting this film into every school in America is a priority of mine" and has addressed students at Vassar and elsewhere about the issues raised in the film. If schools really want to educate kids about nutrition instead of subjecting them to an unopposed political rant, how about having actual scientists and doctors address them instead of an expanding and contracting activist?
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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.
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