Article from 20 years ago - when The Guardian actually did real journalism - talking about a fake pandemic of toxic cooking oil, used to cover up a different, very real, health problem killing huge numbers of people.

Lots of lessons here in how science can easily be corrupted by politics.

https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2001/aug/25/research.highereducation?__twitter_impression=true&s=09