Talk:American Society for Nutrition/Archive 1

Untitled
The American Society for Nutrition and its forerunner the American Institute for Nutrition start:

The American Institute of Nutrition
Clive McCay, a founding member. AIN began in 1933.

Merger falling through
The merger with the American College of Nutrition seems to have fallen through due to the lawsuit described at http://www.anh-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ASN-PR-.pdf Big Pharma Backed Organization Attempts Takeover of Independent Nutrition Group] but I'm reluctant to cite that ... if more of the ASN newsletters were available it would probably shed more light. II | (t - c) 03:59, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Funding
The American Society for Nutrition's "sustaining partners" listed on its website as of March 2018 are: Abbott Nutrition, Almond Board of California, Bayer HealthCare, Biofortis Clinical Research, California Walnut Commission, Cargill, Inc., Corn Refiners Association, Council for Responsible Nutrition, Dairy Research Institute, DSM Nutritional Products (LLC), DuPont Nutrition & Health , the Egg Nutrition Center of the American Egg Board , General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition, Herbalife/Herbalife Nutrition Institute, International Bottled Water Foundation, Kellogg Company, Kyowa Hakko U.S.A., Inc., Mars Inc., McCormick Science Institute , Mondelez International Technical Center, Monsanto Company, National Cattlemen's Beef Association (a contractor to The Beef Checkoff), Nestlé Nutrition, Medical Affairs, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Inc., Pharmavite (LLC), Tate & Lyle, The a2 Milk Company, The Coca Cola Company, The Dannon Company Inc., The Sugar Association, Unilever

I think they mean sponsors who give them funds; if so, some might see a conflict of interest here. Can anyone find sources to add this to the article? HLHJ (talk) 19:44, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Added, citing and attributing to ASN's own website; not likely to be disputed. HLHJ (talk) 21:37, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Paid edit(ing)
Amygavin, editors are strongly advised not to edit in topic areas in which they have conflicts of interest. If you wish to make factual corrections to the article, you can post a request here and add this text:. This template is used to ask an independent editor to make edits.

PR workers do not have a good track record of making useful Wikipedia edits; their interests conflict fundamentally with those of the encyclopedia. The edit you made to the lede added a reference that did not support the statement about criticism, and the clause you added to the sentence is WP:PROMOTION; it does not add neutral information, but, I think, seeks to make your employer look better. I am therefore reverting it; if you disagree with my judgment, please raise the issue here on this talk page, and notify me by adding this text:.

If you want to make your employer look better on Wikipedia, I would suggest that you, say, provide a source and suggest a statement that all ASN journals are pledged to follow the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors guidelines on conflicts on interest in academic journals, or that all materials put out by the ASN include a conflict-of-interest declaration. If these things are not currently true, you might be in a good position to help them become true. The best way to change Wikipedia's coverage of your employer is to change reality; Wikipedia is honour-bound to reflect reality.

I have added you to a paid editors template at the top of this page, with your employment affiliation as metadata. You can also do this yourself in future. HLHJ (talk) 00:56, 24 August 2018 (UTC)