Scientific Research Ruse

Summary


I am completely unqualified to issue scientific opinions, but that's about all I have in common with the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). However, I do consider myself somewhat of an authority on political hardball, and it's time corporate America started playing it with the CSPI.

By way of brief description, the CSPI has taken it upon itself to act as the nation's diet police. Its sworn enemies are fat, sugar, caffeine, alcohol and calories in general. The CSPI case against food rests on "scientific evidence" that living on a diet of organic microgreens and distilled spring water will result in fewer health problems than a diet of actual food. Unfortunately for the Americans who rely on CSPI for "information," two specific problems exist with the group's activities that make most of its nutritional nagging highly suspect:

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Scientific Research Ruse

* First, CSPI does not conduct actual scientific research. Instead, it is a public policy advocacy group. The organization wants the public to assume it does research, when what it really does is tro...

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