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Fredrick J. Stare, PhD, MD, one of the most influential and outspoken critics of nutrition quackery and misinformation died on April 4th at the age of 91. He was the founder of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and its chair for 34 years. He also founded the research journal Nutrition Reviews and co-founded the American Council on Science and Health.
A paper by Dr. Stare, "Boston Nutrition Society, Inc., Plaintiff vs. Fredrick J. Stare, Defendant," published in a 1963 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, described the 1959 libel suit against him in response to an article he published in McCall's magazine. Dr. Stare had written that claims...