Dennis Prager Show - Vinnie Tortorich talks Health
Aired: 2019-08-23
Duration: 01:49


=== Why Studies Can Be Misleading (01:49) ===

[00:00:00]  Hi, this is Dennis Prager and this is what you missed yesterday on the show.
[00:00:04]  I just want to say I listened to a USC doctor wrote a book and I listened to it on Audible and he was adamant that you live longer with less fat.
[00:00:20]  That saturated fat is just, you know, meat.
[00:00:24]  In particular, he swore against meat with the same passion that you swear for it.
[00:00:33]  Right, and obviously he's wrong, and here's why.
[00:00:39]  And I'm going to skip ahead a bit.
[00:00:41]  So you said to yourself, how does this guy get all of this wrong information?
[00:00:44]  Well, the wrong information is fed to all of these doctors and scientists.
[00:00:50]  Because of money, and the money is flowing in from the big food companies like Unilever, for example.
[00:00:56]  Unilever gives millions of dollars to a guy named Walter Willett, who runs all of the scientists at Harvard.
[00:01:03]  So whenever you see a report in Time magazine or you see some, it'll say, Harvard scientists says it's the money trickling in by the millions to Walter Willett.
[00:01:14]  He then hands it off to a scientist who will go and do an epidemiological study.
[00:01:20]  Just to let the audience know what an epidemiological...
[00:01:23]  It sounds important, but it's not.
[00:01:25]  It's to study a group of people and what they do, right?
[00:01:30]  So you could take any study if you just...
[00:01:33]  Take a group of people, and if you squint hard enough, you can make that evidence whatever you want it to be.
[00:01:38]  We do it in politics all the time.
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