The BMJ really seems to like its investigative reporting, but the quality of this reporting, as of late, leaves me uneasy; it frequently touches on popular concerns regarding industry's role in the scientific process, and their undoubted desire to support research that will shine well on their products. They had their sugar piece that attempted to paint actually legit researchers like Susan Jebb in a bad light. They gave voice to Nina Teicholz's perspective on th e dietary guidelines - Ms Teicholz paints herself as someone who is concerned about the quality of evidence and bias that goes into the Dietary Guidelines, but from reading her work, she doesn't seem to have a universally applied ruler with which she measures the quality of research (#IIFYB). She attempts to sell to us that recommendations to replace saturated fats with PUFAs have been bought by the vegetable oil industry. Despite what I find to be weak arguments, she has the amazing ability to distract peopl...
