Podcast: Red Meat Research Exposes Epidemiology's Critical Flaws

By Cameron English and ChuckDinerstein — Jul 24, 2024

Most health scares in the headlines are generated by low-grade epidemiology research that correlates food or chemical exposures with negative health outcomes. A recent review employing a new analytical tool highlighted some of the critical problems in this research – by looking at studies reporting health risks linked to red meat consumption. Let's take a look at the findings.

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Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 82 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:

Red Meat Revelations: Cutting Through the Fat of Nutritional Epidemiology

Nutritional epidemiology is notorious for producing sensational, conflicting results that confuse us all. We’re stuck with observational studies that can be twisted in countless ways to get different outcomes. Enter a new tool aiming to cut through this mess by testing all possible analytical choices and showing how flexible and unreliable these studies can be.

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Cameron English

Director of Bioscience

Cameron English is a writer, editor and co-host of the Science Facts and Fallacies Podcast. Before joining ACSH, he was managing editor at the Genetic Literacy Project.