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It happens.
I've even seen the exact same study interpreted with completely opposite conclusions, so all you can do is look at the as much information as possible and draw your own conclusions.
To emphatically state that people who don't trust a study you cite are paranoid or conspiracy theorists is naive at best. When a study is paid for by someone with a financial motive, I think it may be foolish to trust it blindly without taking a closer look, that's all.
I'm not saying every single study is automatically trash, but when a study has the potential to increase the public's opinion of a product or its ingredients, thereby increasing someone's profits, it deserves a closer look.
It happens.
I've even seen the exact same study interpreted with completely opposite conclusions, so all you can do is look at the as much information as possible and draw your own conclusions.
To emphatically state that people who don't trust a study you cite are paranoid or conspiracy theorists is naive at best. When a study is paid for by someone with a financial motive, I think it may be foolish to trust it blindly without taking a closer look, that's all.
I'm not saying every single study is automatically trash, but when a study has the potential to increase the public's opinion of a product or its ingredients, thereby increasing someone's profits, it deserves a closer look.