Research touting health benefits of red wine consumption was faked

[astro]

Oh well… back to carrots.
Gulp! Faking red wine research

But is resveratrol really a magic ingredient? That’s what some are asking after a tenured professor at the University of Connecticut, who was heavily involved in resveratrol research, was busted.

After a three-year investigation, the university concluded that Dipak K. Das, falsified and fabricated data at least 145 times. Das was a prolific publisher of research and one of the media’s go-to persons on resveratrol. His scientific work on the red wine compound was cited frequently and his name was listed hundreds of times in Google Scholar. UConn alerted quite a few scientific journals about its findings.

After hearing of the falsified research (OK maybe it’s not proven yet, but the university’s report was an ominous 60,000 pages long), you have to wonder if the health benefits of red wine are a sham, too. Maybe red wine is actually about as beneficial to our health as a Cinnabon

[jz78817]

at this point, since the medical/nutrition sciences can’t seem to agree on what foods are good and bad for people, I’m going to just eat the way I feel like and if I drop dead by 50, so be it.

[Knorf]

OP’s thread title is somewhat misleading. From the linked article:

The article suggested that asking whether red wine is good for you is an entirely different question from asking if resveratrol is good for you. There are studies that suggest that drinking red wine if beneficial, but they don’t link that benefit to the trace amounts of resveratrol.

The busted researcher’s apparently false data is not the only source of claims for the health benefits of red wine.

[aruvqan]

@jz78817

at this point, since the medical/nutrition sciences can’t seem to agree on what foods are good and bad for people, I’m going to just eat the way I feel like and if I drop dead by 50, so be it.

II sort of decided that years ago. I still follow the food schedule from the diabetes nutritionist, but I use salt, real butter, milk and eggs. I figure that we more or less evolved eating them, so I am not going to go with the whole ‘better living through modern chemistry’ approach, other than I like splenda for my sweetening ingredient.[I would use stevia, but it has a nasty aftertaste of licorice. Blargh. Devils ass.] I figure use anything, but in moderation is the best way to go.

[ShelliBean]

I *knew *I felt like shit after drinking red wine!

Oh, I thought he meant a bottle at a time. Whoops. Maybe I’m the one that skewed the results.

I think people who falsify research studies should be put in a group and only perform studies on one another. Maybe Das comes out with measles, maybe Wakefield comes out with cirrhosis… who knows what fun lies ahead?

[F.U.Shakespeare]

@astro

Oh well… back to carrots.

Carrots, hell - back to bourbon!

[Ruken]

@Knorf

OP’s thread title is somewhat misleading. From the linked article:
The busted researcher’s apparently false data is not the only source of claims for the health benefits of red wine.

In later threads when people ask why we should teach basic science to children, we can link to this thread.

I can’t get the link to work, but if this is the guy at UConn, IICR many of his results pointed to some brand of reservitol that was made or isolated by a company with which he has financial ties. The research had little, if anything, to do with the consumption of red wine, which has very low concentrations of reservitol.

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/01/12/a_resveratrol_research_scandal_oh_joy.php
Unless we’re talking about someone else, because the story I linked to is so last month.

[LavenderBlue]

I get benefits from red wine no matter what. After a half glass my face gets bright red and I get very sleepy twenty minutes later.

[KneeSid]

While I agree science does have some conflicts, we do know basically about what is good and bad for us.

First the West is horrible at getting the correct amount of fiber. We almost all need more.

Second, we all (me too) eat way too much.

Third, for every kilogram you weigh you need one gram of protein. You need complete proteins, you find in animal products or by combining plant matter, such as beans and rice.

Split the rest between fats and carbs as you need to maintain a healthy BMI

[Knorf]

@Ruken

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/01/12/a_resveratrol_research_scandal_oh_joy.php
Unless we’re talking about someone else, because the story I linked to is so last month.

It’s the same guy.