“If someone comes out with a finding favourable to what you believe in, you
say that’s a good piece of work. If it doesn’t agree, you start nit-picking.” So
says a food scientist in this wonderful and frightening piece of journalism,
Tainted Truth by Cynthia Crossen (Touchstone, $12, ISBN 0 684 81556 7),
now available in paperback. You’ll never believe the results of a sponsored
study again.
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