[Wonder Warthog]

"One of the principal investigators told a science journalist that he sat on the results for 16 years and didn't publish because "we were just so disappointed in the way they turned out." "

I sure would like to find out this idiot's name. Why on earth would any "real" scientist care about "the way they turned out"? Does he perhaps own stock in a margarine company??

[9YearLurker]

Scientists whose findings go against the grain regularly find their careers stunted and they fall into either ridicule or obscurity.

But considering what he could do with presumably no direct industry pressure, just imagine how many industry-funded scientists are pressured to bend or bury their findings.

And it assuredly doesn’t just happen in nutrition and medicine. Climate change, anyone?

[tiki]

I was thinking maybe some kind of PETA idiot.

[Mr. Lucky]

More likely that he had a job that he rather enjoyed and wished to keep it.