Re:How many medical studies are faked or flawed?
by smcin on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @05:33PM
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Is the Coca-Cola mention about their campaign to influence CDC research and policy [0], and pro-obesity astroturf [1][2]?
[0]: Politico "Coca-Cola tried to influence CDC on research and policy, new report states" [https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/29/coke-obesity-sugar...]
[1]: "Evaluating Coca-Cola’s attempts to influence public health ‘in their own words’: analysis of Coca-Cola emails with public health academics leading the Global Energy Balance Network" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10200649/
[2]: Forbes: "Emails Reveal How Coca-Cola Shaped The Anti-Obesity Global Energy Balance Network" https://www.forbes.com/sites/nancyhuehnergarth/2015/11/24/em...
Do you think CocaCola and the Sacklers had their own unique ideas shared by no one else? That we've filtered all scrupulous people out of industry?
Scruples are an abstraction at that scale.