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Susan GREENHALGH, interviewed by Gonçalo SANTOS and Jun ZHANG on 28/February/2025
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In this episode, anthropologist and science studies specialist Susan Greenhalgh talks about her most recent book, Soda Science. Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola, taking TechnoViews listeners deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet industry needs. The episode begins with a brief account of how industry leader Coca-Cola mobilized allies in academia to create a soda-defense science that would protect the industry’s profits by advocating physical exercise, not dietary restraint, as the priority solution to the problem of obesity. The goal of soda science was to use science to discourage the introduction of restrictive public polici ...
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chinacorporate sciencedeceptionobesityBig FoodUnited States of America