Stay up to date on what U.S. health experts are saying, doing, recommending, etc., but don't place too much trust in them. That's the lesson we can learn from a recent scandal in Germany.
"The tobacco industry paid four top German scientists to produce research downplaying the dangers of cigarette smoking, Hamburg's Der Spiegel reported this week. Jurgen von Troschke of Freiburg University allegedly took nearly a half-million dollars from the German Association of Cigarette Manufacturers for a report concluding that cigarettes were not addictive." Source: The Week Magazine
I personally believe these conflicts of interest have probably tainted a number of health studies that supposedly prove one thing or another. How many studies have been affected, I wonder?
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