Scientists found a clear link between red meat and cancer
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Is "over-consumption" any amount of red meat at all? Is "over-consumption" ten pounds of red meat every day? Who knows, they don't bother to say.
> Conflict of interest statement
> R. Shanmugam reports a patent for Specific inhibition of telomerase activity in colorectal cancer pending. J.-L. Low reports grants from National Research Foundation, Singapore, during the conduct of the study. I.B. Tan reports grants and personal fees from MSD and Roche, personal fees from BMS, AstraZeneca, and Merck Serano, and personal fees from Amgen outside the submitted work; in addition, I.B. Tan has a patent for related to current work pending. V. Tergaonkar reports grants from National Research Foundation (NRF) and National Medical Research Council (NMRC) during the conduct of the study. No disclosures were reported by the other authors.
Writing patents is what most universities wait for from their employees; grants from research foundations have been the norm since the 1980s, and personal fees from the pharmaceutical industry are also the norm if you have worked with them.
What would be more interesting would be a link with the vegan industry or PETA.
> What would be more interesting...
True. Mostly because, compared to the pharma industry and research foundations, the total funding available to those folks is on the very close order of $zero.
I agree this is quite common at least in the field that interests me: Neurodegenerative diseases.
> "True. Mostly because compared to the pharma industry and research foundations..."
I don't know, at the same time we would have no medical drugs without these organisms and yet they are vastly inefficient in their resource allocations:
Testing drugs that were already tested or testing drugs without any pre-clinical indication they would have any beneficial effect or using animal models like mice, fishes, worms or even worse immortal cells that do not model human anatomy or physiology at all.