“There may be a difference in pesticide residues but they didn’t test for that in this paper, and there may be environmental differences but they didn’t test for that,” Emeritus Professor Truswell said.

Despite the fact that the study is largely meaningless because it ignores a key question, the media has a field day dissing another “middle-class” issue.

More darkly, why does the study ignore the key issue? Are they just stupid? And academic journals are full of rigorously conducted but meaningless or deceptive studies, so no surprise there. Or is it some agenda the bureaucrats are running on behalf of some interest group? Never believe that because something is funded by government that it is independent, as is claimed for this research.

AUSTRALIA, 2014: President Rudd yesterday extended the Federal Government’s list of banned internet sites to include any material relating to takeaway food. “After constructive ongoing dialogue with a diverse range of experts in the relevant medical disciplines, we have taken this pro-active regulatory initiative in the interests of the health of all working families,” he said. The “junk food filter”, as Mr Rudd described it, follows last year’s decision to block access to sites promoting the consumption of alcohol or providing information on illegal home-brewing.

Here they come  again – the do-gooder social engineers who give honest hard-working nannies a bad name.

Read it all, it’s side-splitting fun – unless, of course, you take a dim view of taking the piss out of people who want to take the piss off the rest of us.