Except, you know, it was a grand conspiracy. It was not "our understanding" or "knowledge." It was blatantly the sugar lobby making up "science" and presenting it as fact in order to justify government aided and subsidized expansion. This actually happened. This is an uncontroversial fact.

https://www.cpreview.org/articles/2024/6/sugarcoating-the-truth-the-role-of-lobbying-in-americas-obesity-epidemic

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

https://avicennamedicalreview.com/the-sugar-industry-scandal-how-harvard-scientists-were-paid-to-downplay-the-harmful-effects-of-sugar-and-what-it-reveals-about-science-manipulation/

https://home.sandiego.edu/~jkua/access396/SugarIndustry_NYT.pdf

https://longevity.stanford.edu/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat/

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

You cherry picked one subject to make a grand hand waving argument about everything.