Sound Science is Necessary for Beneficial Public Health Policy

For more than a century, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued dietary recommendations. Unfortunately, the guidelines in the most current Dietary Guidelines for Americans report are based on implausible, biased surveys, while rigorous evidence and the diversity of expert opinions on diet and health are ignored. In a new working paper for the Mercatus Center, Edward Archer, Michael L. Marlow, and Richard A. Williams argue that it is vital that government reports on dietary guidance and economic policies aimed at improving public health to use valid scientific data and analysis.

Read the full paper here.