Always find it interesting that people who happily bash pharma for funding potentially conflicted drug studies will mostly accept without question industry-funded studies on specific foods like blueberries
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As I've said before, industry funding isn't the death knell for research many people think it is, but even so it's fascinating to see the difference when it's drugs that are being researched vs everything else
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Another example - the medical cannabis industry is growing, and funding a lot of trials. Some of them are very good. Still, there's likely to be some industry bias there as wellpic.twitter.com/7i7oVpkrjf
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Coca-Cola appears to be a particularly frequent offender.pic.twitter.com/7NhiCRg1Ds
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Definitely, although they are sneakier than most. They fund lots of research into how important exercise is for weightloss, even though it's fairly well-settled that it isn't
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I'm not sure how many blueberry executives make over $30M/yr, or have their income determined by stock performance. Perhaps a false equivelancies?
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