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submitted 10 months ago by Joleee to c/science

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It basically is...

A good practice is to check who funded the given study. Look under acknowledgements.

In this case, it was Zespri International Ltd. "the world’s largest marketer of kiwifruit"

The purported benefits claims are from self-assessment phone surveys..

Definitively no suspicion of bias in this research...