Didn’t publish his finding because the government money well would dry up as soon as his findings didn’t support the Inquisitions’ agenda?
Ping
I knew four of the authors. One, Lael Gatewood, sat on my doctoral committee. None of them struck me as timid or cowards - now I have to find out who among them it was that was quoted.
This was a beautifully-designed study - though I’m not certain about an IRB’s reaction today. The paper’s first section describes the ethical considerations.
It was a 4.5-year long study, double-blinded, and with open enrollment. Further, it did not rely on diary entries for food intake data. The subjects were institutionalized in six state mental hospitals and one nursing home. The dietary control was rigorous as to what - I don’t recall anything about amount but total caloric intake must have been sufficient in any pt who completed the study.
Voluntary participation was near 100% during the dietary intervention phase, which began in November,1968. IMHO, even the analyses were near-perfect.
I wish I knew what made the authors sit on this between 1973/1974 and 1989. Analyses alone would have taken the better part of two years and the authors were expecting significance to develop only after two years on the diets..
Gatewood and I talked a bit about this on several occasions before I left the Dept. of Lab Medicine for industry in 1980.
The complete 1989 paper is available, free, from:
http://atvb.ahajournals.org/content/9/1/129.full.pdf+html
I have to disagree with the reference to an ‘obscure journal.’ “Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology” is still going strong in 2016.
The guy who started all the meat/fat/cholesterol hysteria (forget his name) packed the board of the National Heart Institute (or whatever the group is called) and worked to get the standards changed with the McGovern Committee (1977) that flipped the “food pyramid” to have 40% more carbs and 40% less meats/fats. This is PRECISELY why we have the obesity epidemic today.
Too many Paneras.