UCSF researchers have published an important paper in PLOS Biology that draws on internal documents from the US sugar industry lobby that shows that the industry deliberately suppressed research on the link between sucrose and bladder cancer and heart disease, and then deliberately sowed misinformation about the health effects of sugar, using tactics straight out of the tobacco industry's cancer-denial playbook.
The deliberate deception about science continues to this day, with the Sugar Association publishing a criticism of a study linking sugar and tumor growth, in which the association lied about its own research findings and insisted that there was no link between sugar and cancer.
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