Every week there’s another one. Harvard says red meat is worse than junk food. Harvard finds a food that adds years to your life. Harvard, Stanford, “the most cited scientist in the world”…
I went to Yale and then Stanford, so let me tell you something I learned along the way: the name on the building doesn’t make a study true.
Here’s one thing from the new video that stopped me cold when I first came across it. Harvard researchers went through more than 200 nutrition studies to see whether the funding had any relationship to the conclusions. Among the intervention studies paid for entirely by the food industry, guess how many came out unfavorable to the sponsor’s product?
Zero. Not one.
Does that make industry-funded research automatically wrong? No. But it should make you think twice before taking any headline at face value — including the ones with “Harvard” in them.
The video gets into walnuts, avocados, peanuts, and a sugar industry scandal from the 1960s that Harvard would probably rather you forgot about.