Were They Hungry a Half-Hour After Eating the Pretend Food?
3rd March 2010
Jacob Sullum looks at healthy living and the scientific method.
The failure of the subsidies (an idea championed by anti-fat crusaders such as Kelly Brownell) is not surprising, since people do not buy Doritos and ice cream because they are cheaper than broccoli and brown rice. As for the success of the taxes, the enthusiasm of health nannies should be tempered by the fact that the experiment was highly artificial, since the subjects were not spending real money on real food.