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The Actual Reason Meat Is Not Healthy
Dean Ornish, a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco who advocates for the medicinal value of plant-based diets, told me, “By their own analysis, the studies don’t show that there’s no benefit to cutting back on red and processed meat. So why would Annals publish this press release, and guidelines, saying otherwise?” Medical journals are not immune to the attention economy that influences all publishing, he posited, since they are judged by their “impact factor”—the number of times a journal is cited by others. (The journal’s editor, Christine Laine, said of this allegation that the new guidelines were “relevant to our readers” and displayed “methodologic rigor.”)