PCMR Website Gets Poor Rating

Dairy Foods, Sept, 2001

A university-based policy group has given a poor rating to the Website of the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine, saying it lacks accuracy. The Tufts University center on nutrition communications, school of nutrition science and policy, gave the group's Website a score of 17 of 25 and a 6 out of possible ten for accuracy earning a "not recommended" rating.

In it's commentary Tufts concluded that the PCRM, which advocates a vegan diet, makes "sweeping statements are throughout the site about the effect dairy foods have on osteoporosis, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. The authors claim that countries that consume lots of dairy products have a high incidence of diabetes. However, it is virtually impossible to conclude that milk causes diabetes from this observation, because many factors are responsible for disease patterns. In fact, in their zeal to make their point, the site's authors often blur the line between scientific fact and conjecture."