Seriously - food and #scicomm journalists. Please cover this.
There are achievable bars set by NutriRECS (e.g. long term trials w surrogates) that are feasible for the field. There is not the political or funding will to do these studies but there could be.https://twitter.com/KCKlatt/status/1179116649619824646 …
Yeh each individual published observational study probably costs almost nothing. Most of the databases were set up for other reasons so the largest cost is already paid
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But I think we have to factor in the negative consequences -- confusion resulting in people making really bad choices that end up contributing to obesity and disease. I'm speculating here, of course. Not an iota of data.
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Sure, but none of those costs are connected to research funding, so we wouldn't get other nutrition studies if those costs were foregone
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