Vinnie Tortorich challenges a USC doctor's claim that saturated fat shortens lifespan, arguing the research is corrupted by industry money. He points to Harvard's Walter Willett, who receives millions from food corporations and funds studies that can be manipulated to reach predetermined conclusions.
Hi, this is Dennis Prager, and this is what you missed yesterday on the show. I just wanna 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, that saturated fat is just, you know, meat in particular. He swore against meat. With the same passion that you swear for it.
Right, and he's, obviously he's wrong, and here's why. We, and I'm gonna skip ahead a bit. So you say to yourself, how does this guy get all of this wrong information? Well, the wrong information is fed to all of these doctors and scientists because of money, and the money is flowing in from the big food companies like Unilever, for example. Unilever, Dennis Prager gives millions of dollars to a guy named Walter Willett who runs all of the scientists at Harvard. So whenever you see a report in Time magazine or you see some, it'll say Harvard scientist says. It's the money trickling in by the millions to Walter Willett. He then hands it off to a scientist who will go and do an epidemiological study. Just to let the audience know what an epidemiological, it sounds important but it's not. It's to study a group of people and what they do, right? So you could take any study, if you just take a group of people, and if you squint hard enough, you can make that evidence whatever you want it to be. We do it in politics all the time.
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