Michael F. Jacobson famous quotes

The naturally colored products aren't as bright as the synthetically colored products, they're not as attractive to consumers. But, you know, it's the kind of thing that consumers simply would get used to very quickly.
-- Michael F. Jacobson

#Kind #Attractive #Used

22 of 52 top (FDA) officials have worked for regulated industries, or organizations that cater to those industries...During a hearing held in 1969 by the House Inter-governmental Relations Subcommittee, it was disclosed that of 49 high ranking FDA officials who had recently resigned or retired, 37 joined or served as consultants to regulated industries.
-- Michael F. Jacobson

#Dark #Organization #Fda

...The ACS raised over $180 million last year through its network of 58 Divisions and 3,000 local Chapters. The Society's major public campaign is aimed at reducing smoking and cancers related to it. Yet...the ACS has but a single (lobbyist) in Washington DC. The industry-supported Tobacco Institute, on the other hand, has a ten million dollar budget which supports dozens of Washington staff.
-- Michael F. Jacobson

#Cancer #Dark #Hands

Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body.
-- Michael F. Jacobson

#Wall #Body #Fats

Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer,
-- Michael F. Jacobson

#Cancer #Fda #Acquiescence

I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them.
-- Michael F. Jacobson

#Jobs #Thinking #Media

Industries do everything they can to enhance the reputations of the industry and their products.
-- Michael F. Jacobson

#Reputation #Products #Industry

Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community.
-- Michael F. Jacobson

#Jobs #Community #Guarding

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.