As nutrition debates raged in the 1960s, prominent
Harvard nutritionists published two reviews in a top medical journal
downplaying the role of sugar in coronary heart disease. Newly unearthed
documents reveal what they didn’t say: A sugar industry trade group initiated
and paid for the studies, examined drafts, and laid out a clear objective to
protect sugar’s reputation in the public eye. That revelation, published Monday
in JAMA Internal Medicine, comes from Dr. Cristin Kearns at the University of
California, San Francisco, a dentist-turned-researcher who found the sugar
industry’s fingerprints while digging through boxes of letters in the basement
of a Harvard library. Sept 13 https://goo.gl/448ssa
Sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are
not getting the proper treatment. The standard approach these days is cognitive
behavioural therapy (CBT)—known as the ‘talking therapy’, which implies the
problem is mainly in the sufferer’s head—but this is based on a landmark study
whose results were falsified, it has been revealed this week. The PACE study
had concluded in 2011 that 61 per cent of sufferers were getting well on CBT
and exercise—but the numbers who really benefited had been inflated three-fold
by researchers. The PACE researchers were forced to reveal the study data
following a freedom of information request from CFS sufferers. The request went
to appeal after the research team, based at the Queen Mary University of
London, had refused to accept the first ruling, and spent £200,000 on legal
fees to fight the demand. Independent researchers who have assessed the data
have discovered that the researchers had inflated the benefits of CBT and
graded exercise, results that changed the course of treatment for CFS and which
implied that the problem was chiefly in the mind. Sept.12 https://goo.gl/vA6E4I
Two cases of academic
fraud have been brought to light
under the last Saturn-Neptune square – a combination that astrologers link to the
uncovering of lies. The first one is
from San Francisco,CA while the second is from London. Notice that in each case
the Saturn-Neptune square aspects the horizon axis.
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