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Saturday, April 9, 2016

Everything You Know is Wrong

In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?

Politicized science, whether it's about nutrition, the environment, or any number of social issues, isn't science and is dangerous to the public.
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