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Location: NC
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If you were shocked by the reaction to Nina's BMJ article on Fat a few years ago...this OTT response to the JAMA "meat" article shows the "plant-based" folks are cranking up the heat. Led by David Katz of all people.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/ja...DYvoQBaS8ePMtaM
January 15, 2020
Backlash Over Meat Dietary Recommendations Raises Questions About Corporate Ties to Nutrition Scientists
Rita Rubin, MA
JAMA. Published online January 15, 2020.
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It’s almost unheard of for medical journals to get blowback for studies before the data are published. But that’s what happened to the Annals of Internal Medicine last fall as editors were about to post several studies showing that the evidence linking red meat consumption with cardiovascular disease and cancer is too weak to recommend that adults eat less of it.
Annals Editor-in-Chief Christine Laine, MD, MPH, saw her inbox flooded with roughly 2000 emails—most bore the same message, apparently generated by a bot—in a half hour. Laine’s inbox had to be shut down, she said. Not only was the volume unprecedented in her decade at the helm of the respected journal, the tone of the emails was particularly caustic.
“We’ve published a lot on firearm injury prevention,” Laine said. “The response from the NRA (National Rifle Association) was less vitriolic than the response from the True Health Initiative.”
The True Health Initiative (THI) is a nonprofit founded and headed by David Katz, MD. The group’s website describes its work as “fighting fake facts and combating false doubts to create a world free of preventable diseases, using the time-honored, evidence-based, fundamentals of lifestyle and medicine.” Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, and Frank Hu, MD, PhD, Harvard nutrition researchers who are among the top names in their field, serve on the THI council of directors.
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