October 31, 2012 – Document Dive: What’s Inside the Sugar Industry’s Filing Cabinets?
Internal papers reveal a strategy to safeguard sugar from “opportunists,” “pseudoscientists,” and “enemies.”
—By Maya Dusenbery | Wed Oct. 31, 2012 2:03 AM PDT
Gary Taubes and Cristin Kearns Couzens relied on more than 1,500 pages of internal sugar industry documents for their exposé “Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies.” The piece pulls back the veil on Big Sugar’s decades-long campaign to bury any scientific evidence suggesting that its product plays a role in what one industry honcho called the “death-dealing diseases.”