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[โ€“] Ducks@ducks.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you not aware that "big sugar" is a massive offender of cherry picking data and funding studies that make their competition look bad? It's a large contributor to the obesity problems of the Western world

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

You can literally look at the study to find out who is funding it.