Abstract
Can we attain the ideal of objectivity in the field of public health nutrition?
Highlights
In the field of public health nutrition, we depend, more than most scientific fields, on translational, implementation, and even action research
A work of activism it too was not considered by the faculty to have an adequate evidence base and fully dismissed
Whereas the bread industry did not fight the fiber story, the sugar industry conducted a war against science mirroring that of the tobacco industry, funding a new building for the nutrition department at Harvard, as well as a series of studies designed to show the harmlessness and even benefits of dietary sugar
Summary
In the field of public health nutrition, we depend, more than most scientific fields, on translational, implementation, and even action research. Kuhn (Kuhn, 2012) showed how science progresses, not by a jolly group of researchers who continually build on each other’s findings, but by younger scientists constantly attacking and undermining theories on which senior scientists have built a career--and which the latter tend to defend with all the credibility and power at their disposal.
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