I've said it before and I'll say it again, scientists find what you pay them to find. Everytime I hear something coming over the car radio like 'scientists' say tomato sauce is good for you or chocolate is good for you, the first thing I ask myself is who paid them to say that, - Heinz, Cadbury?
I am hugely sceptical of the '2000 scientists' who report on global warming as I simply don't believe that the billions that the UN is spending on this research produces unbiased results. Equally, any group of scientists who say that global warming isn't man made are probably having their research funded by oil companies and the automotive industry.
As far as the sugar industry goes I am sure that I saw a Panorama programme (or perhaps This Week or something similar) over a decade ago where it was reported that the big sugar companies were completely ruthless when it came to preventing any negative information from being published. This extended to the point of threating individual scientists and their families.
