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by thsksbd 924 days ago
No, you cant disprove a study by the source of funding;Truth doesnt care who funds it.

But its also not obnoxious not to be helplessly naive that you don't scrutinize sources using effective heuristics.

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It's not an effective heuristic. Overly online cynical people are just obsessed with the idea that everything is a conspiracy that can be undone by "following the money".

Bad science reporting is common, but it's more common for the reporters to just misread what a study says.

Besides, this is nutrition science, where what's actually happening is scientists are conspiring against big ice cream by refusing to tell you that it's good for you. (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cre...)

> No, you cant disprove a study by the source of funding;Truth doesnt care who funds it.

But the lie does care.