This is the latest column from Ingfei Chen, in Undark’s series on ethical dilemmas in science. The correlation between food industry funding and skewed research is pretty well established (see https://www.vox.com/2016/3/3/11148422/food-science-nutrition... Ingfei approaches the issue through the lens of ethics. Lots of interesting comments from, among others, Marion Nestle and philosophers of science and ethicists.

full disclosure: I work at Undark mag! We’re a non-profit digital magazine published via the Knight Science Journalism program.