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In reply to the discussion: Saturated fat causes heart disease, eh? I wonder who told us that? [View all]Orrex
(63,203 posts)If you don't know if one diet is better or worse than the other, then on what basis will you distinguish the components of one diet from the other when you're handing out food to your victims?
Further, you probably at least suspect that one diet is worse than the other; otherwise what are you testing? Pretending that you don't know the difference is dishonest--or culpably irresponsible at the very least.
If you have reason to suspect that one is worse than the other, then it's unethical to dump the inferior food on to your victims. Unless, of course, You disclose that one sample of food is better than the other, and you'd need to obtain informed consent from your victims. And in that case, you'd be tainting your results, since the victims would have an incentive to select the better food, thereby compromising the control group.
In short, experimenting on people without their informed consent is unethical, and victimizing the poor because they're convenient for your agenda is monstrous.