{"id":41907,"date":"2025-07-28T05:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41907\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T05:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:40:06","slug":"viewpoint-latest-junk-science-ohio-state-pushes-probiotic-yogurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41907\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewpoint\u2014Latest junk science: Ohio State pushes probiotic yogurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-59747-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">paper\u00a0<\/a>from Ohio State University can be considered a giant endorsement for yogurt that makes you poop \u2013 but unfortunately for giddy food corporations hoping to gain some scientific credibility it is only in mice, and therefore\u00a0EXPLORATORY.<\/p>\n<p>Because mice are not little people.<\/p>\n<p>You just wouldn\u2019t know that from the school\u2019s press release, which alleges pesticides are ruining your microbiome and probiotics may save us, a leap so far beyond the scope of the study we have to wonder if the academics involved are about to launch a new line of supplements.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the latest news and policy debates on sustainable agriculture, biomedicine, and other \u2018disruptive\u2019 innovations. Subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Like epigenetics and fMRI, microbiome hype proceeded from a kernel of scientific truth, some bacteria are good and patients depleted absolutely benefit from transplants, but then became a catch-all for anything and everything companies wanted to link to \u2018gut health.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Once a fad catches on a whole lot of university scholars will rush to endorse it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science20.com\/hank_campbell\/ohio_state_endorses_probiotic_yogurt_using_mouse_studies-257506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">This is an excerpt. Read the original post here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new\u00a0paper\u00a0from Ohio State University can be considered a giant endorsement for yogurt that makes you poop \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[200,79],"class_list":["post-41907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}