Health Propaganda, Exposed
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“The expert report underpinning the next set of US Dietary Guidelines for Americans fails to reflect much relevant scientific literature in its reviews of crucial topics and therefore risks giving a misleading picture, an investigation by The BMJ has found.”
Journalism / investigative feature in a peer-reviewed journal.
Author is an independent journalist (author of 'The Big Fat Surprise'); no study funding. BMJ is a private publisher.
An investigation of the expert report behind the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, focused on saturated fat and review methods.
The report "fails to reflect much relevant scientific literature in its reviews of crucial topics and therefore risks giving a misleading picture," and the committee did not use its own systematic-review library "for more than 70% of the topics."
It critiques review methods; it does not show that low-saturated-fat advice is wrong.
After a complaint, The BMJ published a correction to several statements (e.g. that saturated-fat papers were chosen ad hoc). Its post-publication review found no grounds for retraction and the journal said it stands by the article's critique.