A Major Industry-Funded Alcohol Study Was Compromised
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#2Am I the only one who thinks it's strange that the NIH can receive money directly from a company?
I have trouble believing that will ever go well.
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#3Ooh, an exception to Betteridge's Law of Headlines!
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#4Of course there are, this is pervasive. This has been done for decades by the tobacco industry, by the meat, dairy and eggs industry and others that try to buy scientific studies that favor their product.
Re: A Major Industry-Funded Alcohol Study Was Compromised
#5Am I the only one who thinks it's strange that the NIH can receive money directly from a company? I have trouble believing that will ever go well.
I can't speak directly for the NIH being funded by the companies, but in the UK and Ireland, there are Drinkaware foundations which are almost entirely funded by alcohol companies. It works quite well here
Re: A Major Industry-Funded Alcohol Study Was Compromised
#6Ooh, an exception to Betteridge's Law of Headlines!
The original headline was "How many others are out there?" Which makes it not a yes/no question, and therefore Betteridge's Law of Headlines does not apply.
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#7This article from 2017 appears to be the New York Times reporting (mentioned in the article but not linked directly) that brought down this trial: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/well/eat/alcohol-national...
Re: A Major Industry-Funded Alcohol Study Was Compromised
#8Ooh, an exception to Betteridge's Law of Headlines!
Betteridges ‘law’ is a rule of thumb.
A rule of thumb needs to give you approximately the right answer more than 50% of the time without spending any effort to examine the particular problem in order to be useful.
So it really does not need to be pointed out every time this ‘law’ is broken.
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#9Study 329 anyone?
Re: A Major Industry-Funded Alcohol Study Was Compromised
#10Am I the only one who thinks it's strange that the NIH can receive money directly from a company? I have trouble believing that will ever go well.
I can't speak directly for the NIH being funded by the companies, but in the UK and Ireland, there are Drinkaware foundations which are almost entirely funded by alcohol companies. It works quite well here
Working well for whom? I was under the impression that alcohol consumption in the UK hasn’t really taken a turn for the better in the past 20 years.