treeguy64
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Every six months, or so, Big Coffee comes up with yet another amazing thing its product is capable of doing. Now, it apparently burns brown fat, without exercise or any other weight reduction efforts, on the part of coffee drinkers.
This is bad science: Industries pay researchers to come up with findings that are favorable to its members.
Big Chocolate is another industry that gets favorable studies carried out, and reported on, a few times a year.
These big businesses have a multitude of contacts in TV, internet and radio outlets, so you can bet the public gets BIG word of all of these favorable findings. Such findings should be taken with a grain of salt!
This free publicity shouldn't be allowed, as I see it. It only serves to give a sales boost to the backers who fund it. Thousands of studies, with far more important findings, are carried out, yearly. The public never hears of these studies, because the scientists involved in their important work don't have the mega-bucks and/or media contacts to get the needed publicity.
Both chocolate and coffee can, and do, have very negative effects on many susceptible individuals who occasionally partake of them. I know from painful experience.
(FWIW: This "earth-shattering" finding comes from a study involving nine people! Virtually ZERO studies, going on in labs across the world, coming up with results involving nine test subjects, would get any coverage/exposure, whatsoever, in our everyday world, without massive "push." This study was a major story on today's TV newscasts. Absurd!)
This is bad science: Industries pay researchers to come up with findings that are favorable to its members.
Big Chocolate is another industry that gets favorable studies carried out, and reported on, a few times a year.
These big businesses have a multitude of contacts in TV, internet and radio outlets, so you can bet the public gets BIG word of all of these favorable findings. Such findings should be taken with a grain of salt!
This free publicity shouldn't be allowed, as I see it. It only serves to give a sales boost to the backers who fund it. Thousands of studies, with far more important findings, are carried out, yearly. The public never hears of these studies, because the scientists involved in their important work don't have the mega-bucks and/or media contacts to get the needed publicity.
Both chocolate and coffee can, and do, have very negative effects on many susceptible individuals who occasionally partake of them. I know from painful experience.
(FWIW: This "earth-shattering" finding comes from a study involving nine people! Virtually ZERO studies, going on in labs across the world, coming up with results involving nine test subjects, would get any coverage/exposure, whatsoever, in our everyday world, without massive "push." This study was a major story on today's TV newscasts. Absurd!)
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