Scientist responds to critique of industry ties after publishing study on red meat
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HALIFAX — A Canadian researcher who co-led a study that challenges well-worn advice to limit meat consumption has responded to criticisms he should have disclosed past ties to the global meat and food industry.
Dalhousie University’s Bradley Johnston said Saturday that he followed the disclosure rules of the Annals of Internal Medicine, which published the work. They require him to reveal outside funding received within three years.
The Halifax professor and epidemiologist said the last time he received money from the International Life Sciences Institute, an industry trade group, was almost five years ago, and that he has cut all ties since.
However, a professor of nutrition and food studies at New York University said that while Johnston followed the letter of the disclosure rule in his red meat work, he “ignored its spirit.”
