Word: staring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These groups have often warred with Stare because he has prominently and repeatedly pooh-poohed warnings about excess sugar consumption in the United States, contradicting, the report says, "one of the few accepted nutritional principles, namely, that Americans eat far too much sugar." In an interview published in January 1974, for example, Stare said that most people could healthily double their daily sugar intake. Stare's defense of food additives has similarly riled those who argue that many of the chemicals are unsafe...
Thus while ex-professor Jean Mayer also has ties to the food industry, including board directorships on Monsanto and Miles Laboratories, which make food flavorings and other additives--he is criticized less forcefully than Stare in the study for lending his "prestige" to food and chemical companies. Indeed Mayer is praised for "repeatedly [voicing] his concern over food industry advertising and the quality of the American diet...
After examining the corporate ties and nutritional writings of academics in several universities, including Stare and Mayer, the authors of the Rosenthal-CSPI study suggest that the "moonlighting for industry" of academics like Stare "impinges on professors' commitment to their students and their allegiance to professional objectivity. The report continues...
Encourage greater suspicion on the part of the public, press and government officials of the industrial connections of professors who write syndicated columns on nutrition (as do Stare and Mayer), who testify at legislative and executive hearings (as Stare has done extensively), and who sit on government advisory committees...
...dean of the School, said earlier this month he plans to raise the suggestion before the administrative board, a panel which includes all departmental chairmen. Hiatt said having the list might be a "very health thing," although he added that making it public may not be wise. Both Stare and the acting chairman of the Nutrition Department, Robert P. Geyer, also said they have no objection to such a listing if it is not made public. Geyer added that he might support declassifying the forms if the data is used "in a responsible way." "If there is information that...