Do Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Cause Obesity and Diabetes? Industry and the Manufacture of Scientific Controversy

Conclusion: We established that experimental studies that have financial conflicts with the SSB industry are much more likely than independently funded ones to find no relationship between SSB consumption and metabolic outcomes.

In conclusion, clinical trials and systematic reviews of trials in which the conduct of research or investigators were supported by the SSB industry were much more likely to find no association between their products and metabolic outcomes than those that were independently funded. This industry seems to be manipulating contemporary scientific processes to create controversy and advance their business interests at the expense of the public’s health