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At least, that’s what a review out this week would have you believe. To get to those bold claims, the authors used questionable methods, subjective assessments, and money from the food and beverage industry. One of the lead authors is even on the scientific advisory board of Tate & Lyle, one of the world’s largest high-fructose corn syrup producers.

Health experts and researchers were quick to criticize the review—and its blatant bias. “Although scrutiny of dietary guidelines is warranted, we believe that this review is an example of the ‘politicization of science,’” Dean Schillinger and Cristin Kearns, health experts and researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, wrote in an accompanying editorial. “Politicization occurs when an actor overly accentuates inherent uncertainties of science to cast doubt on the scientific consensus.”