# Michael Moore is a big fat phony- why do people support this lying hypocrite?

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**Created:** [March 18, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-big-fat-phony-why-do-people-support-this-lying-hypocrite/441789 "2008-03-18T15:40:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-big-fat-phony-why-do-people-support-this-lying-hypocrite/441789/161 "2008-03-22T19:51:50Z")

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[QUOTE=Jamaika a jamaikaiaké]  
And I must respectfully disagree with the statement “being overweight is something you should ideally want to rectify”  
[Health at any size](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_at_Every_Size)  
[Obesity Myths](http://www.obesitymyths.com/index.cfm)  
[The Obesity Myth](http://books.google.com/books?id=AtTl2A3IlJIC&dq=%22obesity+myth%22&pg=PP1&ots=H7d2obVz0H&sig=AHHeLvDEbdfdrkcNsKtk7SZp6H4&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=lVn&q=%22obesity+myth%22&btnG=Search&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail)  
[Naafa’s list of fat myths](http://www.naafa.org/documents/brochures/myths.html)  
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I’ve read all this before, and while I’m sure there are kernels of truth sprinkled throughout, one quote comes to mind when I hear the pro-obesity arguments:

“If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.” - Fred Menger

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**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-big-fat-phony-why-do-people-support-this-lying-hypocrite/441789/162 "2008-03-22T20:27:01Z")

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[QUOTE=Cisco]  
I’ve read all this before, and while I’m sure there are kernels of truth sprinkled throughout, one quote comes to mind when I hear the pro-obesity arguments:

“If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.” - Fred Menger  
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Then we’ll just have to disagree, I suppose.

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