Cenk Uygur
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Sugar Industry Caught Manipulating Health Studies
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September 18, 2016
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6:14Now PlayingIt turns out a lot of what we thought we knew about sugar was junk science paid for by the sugar industry. Kim Horcher, Brett Erlich, and Francis Maxwell, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"The sugar industry paid scientists to pad research to support its interests in the 1960s, according to a paper published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
Author Cristin Kearns University of California, San Francisco uncovered damning letters in the basement of Harvard University that revealed that two of the school’s most famous nutritionists collaborated with the sugar industry to downplay sugar’s role in coronary heart disease.
The collaboration “delayed the development of a scientific consensus on sugar-heart disease for decades,” coauthor Stanton Glantz, a professor at the UCSF, told STAT.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the sugar industry group involved in the tainted research didn’t have much to say about its decades-old conflict of interest.
“It is challenging for us to comment on events that allegedly occurred 60 years ago, and on documents we have never seen,” the Sugar Association told Reuters in a statement. “The Sugar Association is always seeking to further understand the role of sugar and health, but we rely on quality science and facts to drive our assertions.””*
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Hosts: Kim Horcher, Brett Erlich, Francis Maxwell
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