Lance posted a short take on April 21st concerning the outcome of the latest CDC study on American obesity and its health dangers.

Radley Balko assesses the study with a bit more political (not refrigeratory) depth.

After years of putting the figure (obesity related deaths) somewhere between 300,000 and 400,000, the agency now says the net number is just under 26,000, meaning the government has been telling us obesity is fourteen times the threat it actually is, leading policymakers at all levels of governance to prescribe all matter of intrusive, expensive, choice-restrictive public policies aimed at addressing it.

If all of that weren't bad enough, press reports indicate the CDC will still continue to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on anti-obesity programs, and will not be using the new data in those programs.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President Risa Lavizzo-Mouro told the crowd at a Time-ABC News obesity summit last June that when it comes to public policy and obesity, "we need to act ahead of the science."

This quote from Lavizzo-Mouro explains my thinking precisely in reference to America's holy war. While 'secularists' attack Christianity, supposing it to be wholly disproven by science, they attempt to force their religious tenets down our throats under the guise of science-- a facade of science-- and legislate, policy make, and court rule 'ahead of science'. They consider themselves more intelligent, far superior, and more greatly enlightened than we, the unwashed masses.

This tactic extends far beyond public health. It is used by activists concerning the environment, homosexual rights, crime, homelessness, health care, minimum wages, etc. The list is nearly endless.

The great danger of obesity, then, is not due to abdominal adipose, but that of self-inflatulated (self-inflated, self-infatuated, self-flatulent) egos.

(Hat tip to World Magazine Blog)