These enemies were the “persuasive purveyors of nutritional rubbish,” said Tatem, the “opportunists dedicated to exploiting the consuming public,” “the promoters and quacks” who “calculatedly enlist the mass media to their ends,” who “neatly apply Goebbels’ ‘Big Lie’ technique,” and who had “successfully misled a great many well-meaning advocates and media commentators.” As a result of this campaign of anti-sugar propaganda, said Tatem, “sugar, once accepted almost without question, has become a highly controversial food.” And if we wanted to learn the truth, we’d have to “wade through yards
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