[pepsi_junkie]

All because Ancel Keyes had a theory about red meat and cherry picked / fudged data to support that theory and then systematically used his own celebrity (as did his followers after him) for decades to ruin anyone who dared question that theory. Research grants cancelled, publications that had printed different results invited Keyes to write prefaces saying the study was garbage, etc. Science? Forbidden! the stakes were too high to wait for data!

This is the foundation that the war on saturated fat was built on.

[fireman15]

All because Ancel Keyes had a theory about red meat

Like so many others who spent their lives telling the rest of us how to live our lives, he died at only 71. A lot of people on this forum would say he was just a youngster. The problem with “science” as it is practiced by those in fields where it is difficult to disprove their theories... is that it becomes a game of building consensus. The consensus view is almost always eventually proved to be wrong especially when money and politics becomes entwined in it. We are going to be 20 years into obvious increased measurable glaciation, iced over rivers, and severe crop failures before the leftists finally give up on global warming. Then they will blame global cooling on man.