The China Study by Thomas Campbell

................. 13 _ ... ... Science-The Dark Side WHEN I WAS LIVING IN A MOUNTAIN VALLEY outside of Blacksburg, Virginia, my ...

252 TH E CH I NA STU DY In the mid-1970s, along came a prime example of a health scam, at least according to the medical establi ...

SCIENCE-THE DARK SIDE 253 At the end of the 1970s, the McGovern report succeeded in prodding the government to produce its first ...

254 TH E CH I NA STU DY As a prerequisite to representing my nutrition society on this pub- lic affairs committee, I first had t ...

SCIENCE-THE DARK SIDE 255 A BIG SURPRISE At the time that this new Public Nutrition Information Committee was being formed, a ma ...

256 THE CHINA STUDY new Public Nutrition Information Committee. Who were the leaders of the new Public Nutrition Information Com ...

SCIENCE-THE DARK SIDE 257 THE FIRST MEETING From the first moment of the first meeting in April 1980, I knew I was the chicken w ...

258 THE CHINA STUDY up. In a patronizing tone, he said to the group, "There are honorable people in our society who may not nece ...

SCIENCE-THE DARK SIDE 259 gossip. "Did you hear?" he whispered. " Olson's decided that they're go- ing to reconstitute the commi ...

260 THE (HINA STUDY "consumer education consortium concerned with issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, ...

SCIENCE-THE DARK SIDE 261 placed in the hands of all 535 u.s. congressional members. It was clear that the CAST was deeply conce ...

262 THE CHINA STUDY learned that it was possible to raise, through mailing campaigns, large sums of money for cancer research. I ...

f SCIENCE-THE DARK SIDE 263 cancer research? It all came down to the fact that the AICR, like the NAS, was pushing an agenda tha ...

264 THE CHINA STUDY Before leaving, I arranged for her to send me a copy of the memo she was referring to, and, in a day or so, ...

SCIENCE-THE DARK SIDE 265 One more unfortunate affair, however, bears mention. I was informed by my nutrition society's Board of ...

266 THE CHINA STUDY why my society did the things it did. The awards funded by Mead John- son Nutritionals, Lederle Laboratories ...

,. I t SCIENCE-THE DARK SIDE 267 vast. They can corrupt the good name of institutions of which they are a part and, most importa ...

(^268) THE CHINA STUDY occur. It doesn't involve large payoffs being delivered to secret bank accounts or to private investigato ...

_ 1_4 _ Scientific Reductionism WHEN OUR NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (NAS) Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Committee was deciding h ...

270 THE CHINA STUDY These vegetables recommended by the [National Academy of Sci- ences reportl ... are the ones we should incre ...