GirlHacker's Random Log

almost daily since 1999

 

The Coffee Science Information Centre has a nicely designed site which provides information about coffee and caffeine based on research. Looking through it, though, I get the distinct feeling that it was funded by the coffee industry. All the health information has a definite bias towards the positive. All the possible benefits of coffee are highlighted and all the medical research discussed is laudatory with negative reports diminished. Either coffee is better for us than I thought it was or I’ve stumbled onto yet another camouflaged PR site. Take a sentence like: “Although some negative results have been reported, overall there is no conclusive evidence that moderate consumption of coffee during pregnancy presents any hazard to the fetus.” and be your own judge.