Is Public Health Losing Credibility?

On today's Richmond Times Dispatch editorial pages are discussions about the efforts of public health activists to mandate "health" policies that are becoming policing actions.. While educational efforts to reduce smoking have had some success, particularly among men, constant new legislative efforts are turning public health agencies into police departments. Now with foci on how we can cook what we are allowed to eat, when we are allowed to eat (laws to ban restaurants from serving food to over weight people), in addition to suggested laws on how much we must exercise and suggestions to tax our weight, Aldous Huxley must be spinning in his grave. The Brave New World is here. Walter WIllaims is correct about the camel's nose under the tent. We are moving from education, the strength of past public health efforts, to policing behavior. We are part of the way there with behavioral agencies that have expanded from improving mental health into social tinkering. All these efforts, while well intentioned are dangerous to the public's well being..