DEPARTMENT OF REPETITIVE REDUNDANCY:

Beverage studies tend to get sweet results: study (MARILYNN MARCHIONE, 1/09/07, Associated Press)

Does milk lower blood pressure? Does juice prevent heart disease? Beverage studies were four to eight times more likely to reach sweet conclusions about health effects when industry was footing the bill, a new report contends.

Its authors claim to have done the first systematic analysis of such studies published from 1999 through 2003 in hundreds of journals around the world.

"We found evidence that's strongly suggestive of bias," said Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Children's Hospital Boston who led the work, which was published Monday in the online science journal PLoS Medicine. The consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest also participated.

Biased science...

What's most amusing is that they don't grasp that their study illustrates the real point--studies start with a desired result and then find a way to produce it. This one just happens to be done by folks who favor greater public funding and oppose corporate. The study from Pepsico will demonstrate the opposite...

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 9, 2007 8:41 AM