Friday’s Wall Street Journal reported that the federal government is about to announce which scientists and other experts will revise the nation’s dietary guidelines. These guidelines are written by a 13-member panel. Fair enough, I suppose. It’s more surprising to discover that two of the people sitting on the current panel were nominated by the peculiar folk over at the ludicrously misnamed Center for Science in the Public Interest. Typically (CSPI has never been an organization that is afraid of overreach) the organization has now nominated no fewer than six candidates.

Some of these people may be worthy candidates in their own right, but unless they disavow CSPI’s support they should be rejected. CSPI has long been known for its junk science, scare tactics and oddball obsession with self-denial. Its endorsements should – if the government is doing its job – be taken as seriously as a flat earther at a cartographic convention.