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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 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

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