Second, if you truly believe that, then perhaps you guys should look inward before looking outward.
In my experience scientists can provide some of the best examples of confirmation bias. Worst part it that, once they are firm in their convictions, they often go about inadvertently setting up experiments designed to support their views instead of maintaining objectivity.
The medical world is still teaching carbohydrate-based nutrition that avoids fats because researchers kept looking for correlations showing links between saturated fat consumption and heart disease. This thinking led to the widespread recommendation of foods that contained trans fatty acids.
Many years later, we now know that trans fatty acids are just about the worst thing you can put in your body. The medical community, however, is always about ten years behind the current research, so they are still telling people to substitute shortening and margarine for lard and butter, even though this advice is actually increasing the risk of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, diabetes, and obesity in their patients.
They also incorrectly came to the conclusion that dietary cholesterol was bad for you, so they started prescribing statins to lower serum cholesterol in the hopes of reducing heart disease and stroke. The fact is that there never has been a single study showing a cause and effect relationship between dietary cholesterol and morbidity, but it is now a well-known fact that statin drugs can sicken or even kill you. That fact doesn't stop the docs from prescribing Lipitor, though.
My doc admits they don't do what they are supposed to do for you, but still wants me to take them anyway because there has been some research done (probably by Pfizer) that shows they may decrease inflammation in blood vessels - a leading marker in predicting coronary artery disease. Of course, Pfizer doesn't care anymore because their patent on Lipitor ran out in 2011, umpteen billions of profit dollars after they first brought the drug to market.
