Texas A&M chancellor Sharp wrote a letter to Harvard president over fact that prominent Harvard profs signed a letter demanding retraction of @AnnalsofIM papers based on zero substantive grounds. Papers found minimal ill-effects of red-meat on health. Texas A&M dean an author 1/
Also, @Harvard's Willett accused @TAMU author of having sold out to "big beef" based on minor connection. Willett's been world's most prominent advocate of near-vegan diet (see #EATLancet), so Q: are he + colleagues attempting to silence science that contradicts their views? 2/
Also, important JAMA article documents the conflicts of interests at @Harvard that could influence their faculty's actions: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… These are sadly, just the tip of the iceberg for Willett scribd.com/document/39760… 3/
Willett has been reprimanded before, by no less than the editors of Nature mag, for attempting to silence w/ which he disagrees (I believe this could also be called bullying) forbes.com/sites/trevorbu… 4/
His colleague Frank Hu, who inherited @HarvardChanSPH Chair from Willett, is also a known bully, as he rounded up signers to try to get a paper of mine retracted (which criticized his review on saturated fats and called out Hu's $ conflicts of interest the-sidebar.com/2016/05/promin… 5/
Willett and 3 of his Harvard colleagues (Frank Hu, Meir Stampfer, Eric Rimm) all signed the True Health Initiative letter demanding retraction of Annals papers. That was nearly 1/3 of total signers. #TAMU Sharp's letter to Harvard pres. is here: agdaily.com/livestock/texa… 6/6
