New York Times: We’re So Confused: The Problems With Food and Exercise Studies
Actually, it's multiple problems:
1. Contemporary journalism is terrible.
2. Contemporary research science is terrible.
3. Everything, EVERYTHING is politicized, especially journalism and science.
4. Hence, information is disseminated not to reveal the truth, but to persuade and coerce individual perception into one mass opinion that benefits those who live off of power and graft.