In an article published in Forbes, Henry Miller of the Hoover Institution calls U.S. Surgeon General, Regina M. Benjamin “an embarassment” and concludes that she “should be shown the door.” He continues,
The current Surgeon General, Regina M. Benjamin, had until recently focused her most of her attention on a single issue, obesity, without anything new or specific to suggest. She promised to “[h]elp Americans lead healthier lives through better nutrition, regular physical activity and encouraging communities to support healthy choices.” (Ironically, Dr. Benjamin herself is obese.)
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Now Benjamin has taken on a particularly thorny public health challenge: exercise that musses women’s hair. Think I’m making this up? The New York Times related on Aug 25, “When the current Surgeon General, Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, visited a trade show in Atlanta this month, it was to talk about what has become something of a pet cause: Too many women forgo exercise because they’re worried it will ruin their hair.” (The event was the Bronner Brothers International Trade Show, which the Surgeon General attended – at taxpayer expense – for the second consecutive year.)
Miller polled some of his colleagues in the public health community and found that only nine of 47 could identify Benjamin.
