• Coca-Cola Funds Academic Research So Long As It Can Kill Studies It Doesn’t Like
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/07/report-says-cokes-research-funding-gives-it-right-to-kill-studies.html
And this is why I don't trust most studies; most of them are funded by corporate interests. This is also nothing new: Just look at the war on fat was funded in large part by the Sugar Industry to bury the fact that sugar is causing heart disease, not fat.
I thought everyone knew this. Pretty much every marketing campaign you've ever known to be backed by 'studies' has been funded by the industry leaders the campaign is for, with the 'studies' that came out being cherry-picked because they favor the industry. With the exception of the occasional mild counter study, allowed through to obfuscate the obvious meddling, any and all studies that told a narrative different than what the industry wanted were killed in the crib. "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day?" A campaign funded by the cereal industry, I believe (and I am not certain of this; don't quote me) Kellogg in particular. "Milk is good for you"? Milk industry. The wide-spread belief that meat is important for dinners? Meat industry. In a nutshell, never believe a study at face value. Look at who funds it. Look at who funds them. Look into the industries that the study shines positively on, and look hard to see if they have any involvement. Chances are, they do. And if you can't find this information on a study, because they've buried the funding and interests? Disregard it wholesale. Corporations are not your friends. They never were, they never will be. And they don't believe in honest truth - only whatever gets you to buy their products. Even if it means cooking studies through prejudiced selection.
This is why I only eat Hungryman™© frozen meals. What the hell can John A Hungryman bullshit about in his studies? a "WHY A HUNGRYMAN IS THE MOST BALANCED MEAL YOU CAN GET" study from MIT would probably set off some red flags
"Why drinking Pepsi instead of Coke causes gradual skull detonation: A comprehensive study"
But what is CocaCola gonna block anyway? The fact that their drinks are horrible for your body and great for sewage cleaning? We've known this for a while. All you have to do is be someone with a "dumb" idea, and dump a good bit of it on an extremely clogged shitter, and watch that baby get clean enough to shine your face at the bottom.
Pepsi should have destroyed them while they still had their fleet of soviet warships
Coca-Cola company taking things to the extreme. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/133402/c5280641-2597-4ef0-92af-5ef0fe4d86a0/Screenshot_20190509-135007_Chrome.jpg
From what I understand (and correct me if I'm wrong), this is more than just blocking the publication of a study that's been funded by Coca Cola after unfavourable conclusions arise. This is using funding to control the entire institute and prevent them from publishing things that they may or may not have directly funded. ie, a research group has been looking at the effects of sugary drinks with grants from public funding or NGOs. The institute it's attached to accepts a "grant" from Coca Cola to promote "health research" and suddenly the company has the right to prevent the aforementioned group from publishing their results.
This shit is why I can't take people seriously when people bring up research being "inconclusive" regarding the effects of Monsanto's roundup for instance. By enforcing such abusive power over research they have obvious conflicts of interest with, corporations destroy any credibility that research could have otherwise had. As far as I'm concerned, I just assume the worst case scenario whenever a field of research is captured by groups that have vested interests in its results. They wouldn't do this shit if they were confident in the safety of their product.
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