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TIL the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) paid three Harvard scientists $50,000 (in 2016 dollars) to do a 1967 literature review that overlooked the role of sugar in heart disease. SRF set an objective for the review, funded it and reviewed drafts before it was published.

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