Super-sized con man

Kudos to Radley Balko for doing a little digging into actor/director Morgan Spurlock, the man responsible for Super Size Me, which won Spurlock the documentary director's prize at Sundance. Balko's main revelation is that Spurlock has a track record of making money (not only on MTV, but earlier with a website) by paying people to eat gross things (e.g. a jar of mayonnaise, dog feces). So I suppose that it's progress of sorts that this time Spurlock was putting his own health on the line by eating like a freak.

For more criticism of Spurlock's movie, see Tech Central Station. Also worth looking into: The Competitive Enterprise Institute's adjunct fellow Soso Whaley also did her own version of Spurlock's experiment and apparently lost ten pounds.