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by ncmncm 1954 days ago
They have been trying to establish a causal connection between saturated fat and heart disease for many decades, with no success at all. The failure, despite such effort, is its own evidence. Similarly, others have tried for decades to find evidence for a benefit to taking statins when you haven't had a heart attack, and have again always failed.

There are pretty good reasons to think eating lots of meat is bad for your heart, which they have always blamed on the saturated fat. Now they have having to backtrack, and try to discover what else it is in meat that causes trouble.