I didn’t say the research was trying to finger wag consumers.

I did say they didn’t take in to account significant parameters (and the excerpt of research/article that provides the details of the experiment supports this), so their research is lacking at best.

And even if their intentions were to support the kind of agenda you mentioned (and they might have been, I don’t know), it doesn’t matter, their research is still (and was always going to) be used by those in power to create a new scapegoat to victim blame and punch down at instead of addressing the actual causes of poor health as it relates to poor diet - capitalism and those who benefit from it.

Either way - research about the harms of poor diet that ignores both the circumstances and environment that leads to the poor diet, and the impacts said circumstances and environment have on health before you even look at the food aspect of it, isn’t good research, no matter what you intend to do with it.

You can’t research in to a problem that stems pretty much exclusively from how our society is designed and functions without looking at the sociological aspects of it. (E: well, clearly you can, but it’s an exercise in futility at best)