I wish I could be shocked and horrified but this just seems like par for the course at this point
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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No way... people who are experts in the food/health industry are involved with giving dietary advice? The horror.
Of course there isn't a link to the reports, so I have to go looking for it. Anyway here's the report. PDF - page 8 for the results. I spot-checked a few of them - the conflicts of interest I saw was in the form of companies sponsoring research done. ...which is pretty much how the majority of research gets done I believe..
Also I see coca-cola referenced ONCE as a "possible" COI
Position in industry-sponsored conferences: Dr. Booth was selected to speak at a conference sponsored by Bayer, Coca-Cola, and Abbott, among other industry actors
yet this article seems to deem it alright to put it as the posterboy image and list it prominently among other unpopular company names. Also they have to link to their boogeyman reporting about aspartame. You can see where HN tore it apart here.
This is why I hate news nowadays. I could've made some good food in the past 20 minutes on a nice Saturday, but instead I wasted time finding out a guardian article was bullshit.
Well see, your problem is you’re fact checking things and reading the article.
I would like more details on what "ties" means, since US Right To Know is a well known pseudoscience and fearmongering group, pushing anti-vaccine nonsense among other things. It doesn't help that "big agriculture, ultra-processed food companies, pharmaceutical companies and other corporate organizations" is ridiculously broad.
Yes, people on a food and nutrition panel are going to have some tie to...food and nutrition as a field. That's not a surprising statement.
And how they are connected to the specific companies listed needs explaining, since the US Right To Know group has in the past claimed that any form of email conversation or a company donating to a university someone works at counts as ties.
Thanks for this context.
They're one of the groups with a long history going back decades of fearmongering about biotechnology. Since I'm a molecular biologist (and active in the skeptic and scientific communication areas), I've known about them for a while.
They're closely tied with the Organic Consumer's Association, which is even more insane on the pseudoscience, pushing things like chemtrails.
I put a link to their report in my comment - here's another reference, go to page 8. I see nothing in the report indicating that the people listed are still working for the companies accused in the article.
You think they became corrupt after they got the position or did they get the position because they were corrupt?
Mix of both. Some probably got paid to go there and lobby for said company or product. Others are probably thinking of potential jobs for after. We all know private sectors always pay more than government jobs.