There was another phenomenally successful pseudoscientific fraud in the 70's and 80's.
A conglomeration of statin manufacturers, zero-population-growth nitwits, liberals, animal rights activists, grain-state lobbyists and politicians, vegetable oil pushers, and other monied interests successfully converted the world's official dogma to the belief that dietary fat was bad, and cholesterol was bad.
Now the truth, that excessive carbohydrates CAUSE deadly increases in small-dense-LDL, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, fatty liver disease, obesity, and more, is destroying our nation's health, right at the time when it is becoming the taxpayer's burden.
This from Dr. Mike Eades:
One of the major players in bringing cholesterol to the public’s awareness was Time magazine. Its piece on cholesterol in the March 26, 1984 issue was a devastating hit piece on both dietary cholesterol and dietary fat. Both – the article explained – were a main driving force behind the development of heart disease.
Reading this article today, it’s amazing how it drips with misinformation. At the time, however, most people – physicians included – accepted it as gospel. Sadly, even today, many physicians who should know better believe in and act in accordance to the bountiful misinformation contained in this piece.
You Bet Your Life: An Epilogue to the Cholesterol Story
What Professor Lewis noted here...
"the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs."
...was exactly true of the nutritional pseudoscience fraud that continues and thrives even today.