The New York attorney general's action against herbal supplements, the subject of a post here the other day, is the topic of a skeptical column by New York Daily News columnist Bill Hammond, who writes that the attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, "built his entire case on bad science" and "owes an apology both to the companies he unfairly accused and the consumers he misleadingly alarmed."
Mr. Hammond leaves out the role played in the episode by the New York Times, which pioneered Mr. Schneiderman's approach, publicized it, and patted its own back through the whole thing: "Schneiderman's investigation was prompted by an article in The New York Times Science section."
