You have to give them that, the Bush administration has been consistent and relentless on spinning anything from the war in Iraq, to the state of the economy and of course the " prospect  of peace" in the Middle-East.

It seems now, that this logic of deception and spin was at play in the context of science and climate change as well.

Via Andrew Sullivan:

When I was poking around the Web earlier for interesting takes on today's obesity topic, I sent an e-mail to my friend Mike Fumento, asking if he'd seen the L.A. Times story we linked to. Mike wrote an excellent book 10 years ago called The Fat of the Land, which was one of the first to tackle the politics, prescriptions and personalities surrounding America's obesity epidemic. He's kept abreast of the subject ever since. Here is Mike's reply, which he graciously gave me permission to post here

NYT: