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David R Jacobs Jr PhD

Susan Mc Kinney
Fwd: RE: Letter to BMJ re Dietary Guidelines--Please respond by Nov. 3
Friday, November 4, 2016 2:30:26 PM

In reference to your email, "Re: FW: public records request, 11/11/15", received by me
11/4/2016 2:18 PM central time, enclosed is the email in which I agreed to sign the letter to
BMJ.
David Jacobs

-------- Forwarded Message -------Subject:RE: Letter to BMJ re Dietary Guidelines--Please respond by Nov. 3
Date:Wed, 4 Nov 2015 01:03:23 +0000
From:Bonnie Liebman <bliebman@cspinet.org>
To:David Jacobs <jacob004@umn.edu>
Thanks, David. Ill add your name. Let me know if this is incorrect:

David Jacobs, PhD

Professor, Epidemiology & Community Health
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Best,
Bonnie

From: David Jacobs [mailto:jacob004@umn.edu]

Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 7:57 PM
To: Kuller, Lewis H <KullerL@edc.pitt.edu>
Cc: Henry Blackburn <black002@umn.edu>; Puska Pekka <Pekka.Puska@thl.fi>; Kalevi Pyrl
<kalevi.pyorala@uef.fi>; Kromhout, Daan <daan.kromhout@wur.nl>; Blanche and Marcel Kornitzer
<bmkornitzer@bezeqint.net>; blewis@doctors.org.uk; guy.debacker@UGent.be; gerald shaper
<agshaper@wentworth.u-net.com>; Francisca Crespo <f-crespo@northwestern.edu>; Darwin
Labarthe <darwin.labarthe@gmail.com>; Bonnie Liebman <bliebman@cspinet.org>; Stacy
Richardson <stacyly@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Letter to BMJ re Dietary Guidelines--Please respond by Nov. 3

I would be happy to sign this letter. Thank you for writing it, Bonnie.
David Jacobs

On 11/2/2015 9:49 AM, Kuller, Lewis H wrote:

I would like to sign this letter.

Lewis H. Kuller, MD, DrPH

Department of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh

From: Henry Blackburn [mailto:black002@umn.edu]

Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2015 11:25 AM
To: Puska Pekka; Kalevi Pyrl; Kromhout, Daan; Blanche and Marcel Kornitzer;
blewis@doctors.org.uk; guy.debacker@UGent.be; gerald shaper; Francisca Crespo; Kuller,
Lewis H; Darwin Labarthe; Bonnie Liebman; Stacy Richardson; David Jacobs Jr PhD
Subject: Fwd: Letter to BMJ re Dietary Guidelines--Please respond by Nov. 3

Dear Colleagues. Bonnie Liebman, at the Center for

Science in the Public Interest, would welcome other
U.S. and European leaders to sign on to this letter
today.
BMJ must begin to realize it needs competence in its
reviews of nutritional editorials. Here Ms. Liebman
avoids criticizing Teicholz's misconceptions and
motives and focuses on her errors of fact.
Richard Smith writes me that he is thinking of yet
another editorial confirming Teicholz's views that U.S.
Dietary Guidelines come from a sinister cabal! So
BMJ is becoming an uncritical website/blog open to
bias and distortion, ignorance and dysinformation.
I thought you might be interested in signing the letter
in a prompt reply to Ms. Liebman, with your name and
institution. Best, Henry
PS Kalevi, would you forward to David Wood?
Darwin, would you forward to Lloyd-Jones and Neil

Stone?

Send to : Bonnie Liebman <bliebman@cspinet.org>

---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Bonnie Liebman <bliebman@cspinet.org>
Date: Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 1:36 PM
Subject: Letter to BMJ re Dietary Guidelines--Please respond by Nov. 3
To: Bonnie Liebman <bliebman@cspinet.org>

Dear Colleague:

On Sept. 24, the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) published an investigation
entitled, The Scientific Report Guiding the US Dietary Guidelines: Is it Scientific? The
article (attached) was written by Nina Teicholz, a journalist and author of The Big Fat
Surprise Why Butter, Meat, & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.

The article is riddled with errors. For example, Teicholz claims that the report of the
2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee used weak scientific standards because
it relied on fewer reviews by USDAs Nutrition Evidence Library (NEL) than the 2010
DGAC committee and instead conducted ad hoc examinations of the scientific
literature.

In fact, there were no ad hoc examinations. The appendices to the 2015 DGAC report
specify the search strategy, inclusion criteria, search results, and AMSTAR ratings for
the systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and other studies used by the DGAC. The
attached letter documents ten additional factual errors in the article.

(Note: The BMJ article was timed to coincide with an October 7 hearing of the House
Agriculture Committee, where it was used to criticize the 2015 DGACs scientific
integrity.)

The attached letter urges the BMJ to retract the investigation. Please let us know by
Tuesday, November 3, if you would like to co-sign the letter. (Please also feel free to
pass it on to your colleagues.)

Thanks,

Bonnie Liebman

_______________________________

Bonnie F. Liebman, MS
Director of Nutrition
Center for Science in the Public Interest
1220 L St., NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005

Ph: (202) 777-8335

Fax: (202) 265-4954

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To:
Subject:
Date:

Allen S. Levine
Susan Mc Kinney
Fwd: Letter to BMJ re Dietary Guidelines--Please respond by Nov. 4
Saturday, November 5, 2016 7:32:10 AM

---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Bonnie Liebman <bliebman@cspinet.org>

Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Subject: Letter to BMJ re Dietary Guidelines--Please respond by Nov. 4
To: "Allen S. Levine" <aslevine@umn.edu>

Thanks, Allen.

From: Allen S. Levine [mailto:aslevine@umn.edu]

Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 1:09 PM
To: Bonnie Liebman <bliebman@cspinet.org>
Subject: Re: Letter to BMJ re Dietary Guidelines--Please respond by Nov. 4

Bonnie,

My signature line was not included:

Allen S. Levine, PhD

Professor, Food Science and Nutrition
University of Minnesota

Thanks--it should not include any associations I am involved with.

Best,
Allen
On Tuesday, November 3, 2015, Allen Levine <aslevine@umn.edu> wrote:

Pleased to sign.

Allen
Sent from mobile device
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Mary Story, Ph.D." <mary.story@duke.edu>
Date: November 3, 2015 at 4:02:56 PM PST
To: "Allen S. Levine" <aslevine@umn.edu>
Subject: Letter to BMJ re Dietary Guidelines--Please respond by Nov. 4
Al
I hope you will consider signing onto this letter to help preserve science and
public health.If you want to sign on, just emailBonnie Liebman
<bliebman@cspinet.org> and tell her you want to sign on and provide your
name, title, organization. Needs to be sent in by tomorrow Wed Nov 4
morning .I know there is not much time left butI will send you in the next
eamil the list of who has signed. This is an outdated list because Bonnie just
sent the email to me onSaturday and these are fromSunday so the list by now
is much larger. Boyd Swinburn just emailed that he signed on.
Mary

From: Bonnie Liebman

Date: Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 2:36 PM
To: Bonnie Liebman
Subject: Letter to BMJ re Dietary Guidelines--Please respond by Nov. 3

Dear Colleague:

On Sept. 24, the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) published an
investigation entitled, The Scientific Report Guiding the US Dietary Guidelines: Is it
Scientific? The article (attached) was written by Nina Teicholz, a journalist and

author of The Big Fat Surprise Why Butter, Meat, & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.

The article is riddled with errors. For example, Teicholz claims that the report of the
2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee used weak scientific standards
because it relied on fewer reviews by USDAs Nutrition Evidence Library (NEL) than
the 2010 DGAC committee and instead conducted ad hoc examinations of the
scientific literature.

In fact, there were no ad hoc examinations. The appendices to the 2015 DGAC report
specify the search strategy, inclusion criteria, search results, and AMSTAR ratings for
the systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and other studies used by the DGAC. The
attached letter documents ten additional factual errors in the article.

(Note: The BMJ article was timed to coincide with an October 7 hearing of the House
Agriculture Committee, where it was used to criticize the 2015 DGACs scientific
integrity.)

The attached letter urges the BMJ to retract the investigation. Please let us know
by Tuesday, November 3, if you would like to co-sign the letter. (Please also feel
free to pass it on to your colleagues.)

Thanks,

Bonnie Liebman

_______________________________

Bonnie F. Liebman, MS
Director of Nutrition
Center for Science in the Public Interest
1220 L St., NW Suite 300

Washington, DC 20005

Ph: (202) 777-8335

Fax: (202) 265-4954

<teicholz DGA feature BMJ.pdf>

<bmj retraction letter 10-31-15 .docx>