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Industry Bias: Misleading Us About Meat (Part I)

Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger

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Is Grade the Right Tool for Diet Studies?

The infeasibility for conducting randomized clinical trials on most dietary lifestyle and environmental exposures makes the criteria inappropriate in these areas. You can't randomize people to smoke avoid physical exercise, breathe polluted air or eat a lot of sugar or red meat and then fall them for 40 years to see if they die. The tool he employed in his meat and sugar studies could be misused to discredit all sorts of well-established public health warnings like the link between second-hand smoke and heart disease,. air pollution and health problems. trans-fathom industries could use it to sow doubt in any field where randomized controlled trials are not feasible such as climate changeor what are you going to have some placebo planet

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