Is red meat bad for health? Meta-study of 44 studies finds results depend on the sponsor. If the sponsor is impartial, studies find it's bad. Studies sponsored by the meat industry find the opposite

@dwazou@lemm.ee · edit-2 17 days ago

Is red meat bad for health? Meta-study of 44 studies finds results depend on the sponsor. If the sponsor is impartial, studies find it's bad. Studies sponsored by the meat industry find the opposite

@melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 16 days ago

I’ve had my team of “experts in the obvious” work on this for one and a half minutes and they came to the same conclusion. This is a human greed business issue, not a science one.

Don Piano · 16 days ago

Cool, can you show how big the effect is, based on your team’s efforts? And what the distribution of values is, based on sponsor?

@melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 15 days ago

It’s bell curves all the way down, anything else is proprietary knowledge.

Is red meat bad for health? Meta-study of 44 studies finds results depend on the sponsor. If the sponsor is impartial, studies find it's bad. Studies sponsored by the meat industry find the opposite

Is red meat bad for health? Meta-study of 44 studies finds results depend on the sponsor. If the sponsor is impartial, studies find it's bad. Studies sponsored by the meat industry find the opposite

Industry study sponsorship and conflicts of interest on the effect of unprocessed red meat on cardiovascular disease risk: a systematic review of clinical trials - PubMed