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Originally Posted by TheNewGirl
Actually, again Amaru, I think you're very niave to what huge business health care is.
Diet pills/healthy living shit that should make you skinny is a huge business
Medicating Cancer and Heart Disease and stuff makes more money then curing it ever would.
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What does this research have to do with "diet pills"? Most (if not all) of the sources I posted above recommend against fad diets and pills. They advocate for lifestyle changes in order to reduce body weight, one of which is the limiting of saturated fats. So no, a century's worth of research undertaken by thousands of scientists around the world is not a giant conspiracy funded by the manufacturers of "healthy shit".
If you're talking about pharmaceutical companies in general, then I still think it's just an absolutely ridiculous assertion. Even if such companies were lobbying hard to fund and support research that somehow stalled the progress of nutrition research, there is an even larger and more resourceful group (insurance companies, government, fast food companies, processed food manufacturers) that would have have absolutely no reason to support fabricated research.
The assertion that any company or companies could have the power to control all research conducted at all universities and think tanks around the world is completely bizarre and irrational.
If you've worked at a university lab before, then you know exactly the type of people that spend their lives research this shit. Most of them do it because they're fascinated by the topic, and they like the challenge of solving problems and analyzing research. Most scientists and researchers care more about the "truth" than they do their pocket books, which is why they spent 10 years writing papers to earn $300k a year. Intellectuals are among the least corruptible people on the planet.