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Report: Kellogg’s Spent Millions to Fund Research Undermining Warnings About Sugar in Cereals

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  • Sunny_Bunny_
    Sunny_Bunny_ Posts: 7,140 Member
    Damn shameful!
  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    :s Not altogether surprising, but sad nonetheless...

    Here's a snippet from Sourcewatch on the ILSI, the "research" entity said to have conducted the industry offensive.

    http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Life_Sciences_Institute

    "International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a multi-faceted Washington DC-based global network of think-tanks, scientific societies and institutes. It is a "Two-level" organisation which provides both legitimate scientific associations with members from government, universities and legitimate laboratories on the surface, but with a subterranean layer of corporate PR and science-corruption executives which provides their funders with global lobbying services."
  • AlexandraCarlyle
    AlexandraCarlyle Posts: 1,603 Member
    That is one whole paragraph of total blah blah blah......an attempt at self-justification that's just a load of twaddle-waffle....
  • kilroy02
    kilroy02 Posts: 37 Member
    RalfLott,

    I get medscape, which is for medical doctors, nurses. I'm neither. But there was a big fracus because the FDA is paid by the drug companies. And they were talking how the FDA will fastrack a drug if the company pony's up some extra cash.

    http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/869943

    Who can you trust anymore? Those in the highest offices are on the take.
  • ladipoet
    ladipoet Posts: 4,180 Member
    Not surprised in the least.
  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    edited April 2017
    kilroy02 wrote: »
    RalfLott,

    I get medscape, which is for medical doctors, nurses. I'm neither. But there was a big fracus because the FDA is paid by the drug companies. And they were talking how the FDA will fastrack a drug if the company pony's up some extra cash.

    http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/869943

    Who can you trust anymore? Those in the highest offices are on the take.

    I wish I had an answer.

    Everyone needs income, of course.

    But information in situations where the product / service being offered follows the research (as in the case of Virta, Adapt, L-Nutra, etc.) is surely better than research designed to protect profits....
  • camtosh
    camtosh Posts: 898 Member
    edited April 2017
    Saw this on twitter last night too. Ilsi gets around!

    https://therussells.crossfit.com/2017/02/06/expert-witness-against-noakes-to-undergo-investigation-for-ilsi-ties/

    and Marika Sboros's report:

    http://foodmed.net/2017/01/13/noakes-ilsi-queenpins-trying-nail-him/
  • MzLazyBones
    MzLazyBones Posts: 63 Member
    Whenever a study "finds" something, follow the money. The tobacco industry funded a lot of studies that found no link between lung cancer and smoking for the longest time.
  • mandycat223
    mandycat223 Posts: 502 Member
    This reminds me of a study done decades ago by university researchers. They had two test groups of rats: one fed on nothing but best selling breakfast cereals with milk and the other fed on nothing but the cereal cardboard boxes with milk. Neither group did all that well but the cardboard eaters didn't do any worse.
  • cstehansen
    cstehansen Posts: 1,984 Member
    I think this explains quite well how we should view most "studies" presented in main stream media.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw

    It would be funnier if it weren't so true.
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