If it turns out they’re right, will there be someone we can sue? [Oliver; more on government's tendency to expose the public to risk]
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on May 7, 2011

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There’s always someone we can sue.
Bob
Why don’t we start off with Mayor Bloomberg and proceed from there.
Exactly who I had in mind, Richard. I was diagnosed with Type 2 a little over a year ago and have also avoided salt for years. I guess the nutrition-industrial complex knows an awful lot of stuff that just isn’t true.
It is only by doing the polar opposite of what conventional wisdom dictates that I’ve managed to get it under control.
Pass the soy sauce.
How should we choose among these dueling, high-profile nutritional findings? Ioannidis suggests a simple approach: ignore them all.
But no do-gooder worth his salt can mind his own business.
Who will stop mega-nannies Michael Bloomberg and Michelle Obama before they kill any more innocent people?
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