Food Nannies’ Halloween Cancer Scare

FOXNews.com - Junk Science: Food Nannies’ Halloween Cancer Scare - Opinion: “The latest food scare was announced, appropriately enough, on Halloween. But the science behind the scare is about as believable as are ghosts and goblins.”

“The vast majority of the results from individual studies between every type of food and every type of cancer cited in the report are either significantly below 100 percent and/or statistically insignificant. The relatively few cited risks that exceed 100 percent are typically not statistically significant or have wide margins of error.”

“In the end, the AICR report isn’t really science at all it’s more of bloody crime scene where science got violently mugged by hoods costumed as health and nutrition experts and wielding statistical pepper spray. In some ways, this shoddy science isn’t surprising when one considers that the AICR also pitches cranberry recipes and other culinary snake oil as a means of reducing cancer risk.
The AICR advocates against consuming fat, salt, sugar and alcohol– an agenda worth $37 million in charitable donations in 2006. So we shouldn’t be surprised when the food police issue a “report” advancing such a lucrative agenda.”

It seems that many of these “scientific” study conclusions are now being driven by those that fund them. If money is going to drive science like it does in health and global warming hype then those funding science will determine its conclusions. That means people with money will have a great tool to lie to everyone to further their own greedy agenda.

If you have not noticed, science has reversed itself often more than once on just about everything it ever said in the last 50 years. That ranges across the spectrum from how to raise children, how to brush your teach, what to spread on your bread, how much dust is on the moon, to climate science. The bottom line is take all these “scientific” studies with a grain of salt (pun intended).