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Re:Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for ... by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:55AM (#46528824)
You're right to be skeptical, but:

> They paid a total of 2 people $50,000.

That's over half a million, in today's dollars.

With inflation, and whatnot, we get numb to what money was, back when.

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Re:Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for ... by jscd on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:01PM (#46528913)
Other way around. To quote the article:

> To conduct the literature review, the sugar industry paid the Harvard scientists the equivalent of $50,000 in 2016 dollars [...]

So it was actually about ~$5,000 in 1965 dollars.

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Re:Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for ... by deathanatos on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:06PM (#46529007)
… it's $68,404 in today's dollars, according to BLS's inflation calc.

(…your figure works out to a 26% per annum inflation rate. The $50k figure is in 2016 dollars — "the sugar industry paid the Harvard scientists the equivalent of $50,000 in 2016 dollars".)

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Re:Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for ... by eru on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:01PM (#46528917)
No, that's already inflation adjusted.
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Re:Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for ... by astura on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:02PM (#46528945)
The $50k is already adjusted for inflation.
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Re:Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for ... by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:52PM (#46530770)
Ah. My bad, then.
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