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Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by ta8645 on Saturday February 13, 2021 @07:42PM (#26128553)
Why does anything have to be abrupt? Perhaps Sars was a test run to get everything in place re the data, policy, and propaganda required to make it work? How exactly do you personally verify the veracity of the data and methods used?

Why do you think things are so much different today than they were just a few decades ago when the science in regard to sugar was corrupted? The corruption was successful then, and things aren't that much different today. Do you honestly believe that in 50 years time we wont look back and see at least one thing that was purported to be scientifically proven true, subsequently falsified?

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Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by readflaggedcomm on Saturday February 13, 2021 @08:23PM (#26128807)
I didn't believe the anti-fat propaganda, but I had precious few tools to convince others. Now we have an embarrassment of useful information, and most people pay attention to shoddy analysis to support anti-science ad-hoc statutes, instead. But at least I can satisfy myself on the facts.

Nothing has changed at all, really.

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Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by ta8645 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:02AM (#26129837)
> Nothing has changed at all, really.

That's exactly right. So we're equally vulnerable to corrupted science as all the people before us who fell victim to the examples listed above.

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