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Health

• October 5 -- "Standing Ovations" for Kerry on Stem Cells
The Times hypes stem-cell research: "Scientists say that embryonic stem cells hold great hope for medical treatments. But many conservatives and opponents of abortion criticize such research because it involves the destruction of human embryos….Polls show that strong majorities of the public favor an expansion of stem-cell research, and Mr. Kerry is routinely asked about it -- and wins standing ovations for his answers."

• September 17 -- Bad Labeling Habits on the Trail
Richard Stevenson and Robin Toner indulge in some unhealthy labeling bias while on the campaign trail with Bush.

• July 13 -- Unlabeled Liberal Health "Experts" vs. "Conservatives"
Mireya Navarro portrays liberal activists as nonpartisan health "experts" fighting "conservatives."

• June 10 -- A Headline You'll Never See In the Times
The headline reads "Should Doctors Help With Executions? No Easy Ethical Answer." Times Watch wonders if the Times would ever extend that premise to abortion.

• April 9 -- The Obesity "Epidemic"
The teaser to a story on lawyers drooling over the upcoming feast of fast-food litigation reads: "With obesity now recognized as an epidemic, a wave of litigation looms." Is overeating actually contagious?

• January 27 -- Bush's "Bold" (and Liberal) FDA
Science writer Gina Kolata on the "bold" (read: liberal) decisions of Bush's FDA commissioner.

• January 20 -- Talking Up a "Fat Tax"
Jane Brody outlines some nanny-state proposals for fighting the "epidemic of obesity."

• December 3 -- Socialized Medicine as "Social Justice"
Judy Foreman swathes a doctor's radical plea for socialized medicine under the gauzy guise of do-goodism, writing: "Dr. Woolhandler's commitment to social justice began in her childhood in Shreveport, La....Her father hired black women to take care of his four daughters, who sometimes visited these women in their shacks on roads the city never paved. That injustice was not lost on the Woolhandler girls."

• October 10 -- A Meaty Times Debate
A front-page expose indicates the Times thinks E. coli in schools is a big deal. Someone should tell food reporter Marion Burros, who seems more concerned about phantom environmental dangers from irradiated meat.

• October 2 -- The Times' Anti-Choice Movement
What happened to the pro-choice movement? The premise of Tuesday's Health & Fitness story by Anahad O’Connor, “States Fail to Meet No-Smoking Goals for Women," condescends to women by treating them as passive victims of tobacco in need of state protection from choosing to smoke.

• July 2 -- The Bias of Ms. Jane Brody
Jane Brody’s fawning story on gay adoption reads like a press release from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

• April 25 -- Krugman’s Persecution Complex
Columnist Krugman: “Claiming that those who don't support tax cuts are somehow unpatriotic is not an answer.” Who’s he talking about?