Egg Council at it again.

[The Simpsons] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAFMFFQlkI https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Egg_Council_Guy

That's all I need to see to stop reading the study. Sponsored science is just noise.

They didn't fund the health study, they funded this paper to point out the positive data in the study.

There's two way to bias independent research through funding. The most nefarious is to fund a whole bunch of research, and only publish the favored results. By ignoring enough failed attempts, it's even possible to get false-positive successes, through random chance. (Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/882/)

The second way is to only fund research that is likely to be favorable. E.g. if you sell vitamin supplements, you only fund research on people with bad diets, but not people who eat healthy diets that likely aren't affected by supplements.

In this case, it's leaning so far into the latter, that it's just pointing out positive research that someone else found.

The source of funding is not the only suspicious thing...

From the actual study, which is free to read [0]:

>Dietary intake was assessed at baseline using a validated, self-administered FFQ that included >200 food items

So out of 200 potential associations, eggs were the winner? See this famous xkcd: Green jelly beans linked to acne.[1]

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002231662...

[1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/882:_Significant

LMAO, good catch. And I was about to look into it further!