The Bogus Chile Pepper Cancer Scare of 1994-95
Here's another good, informative article from Fiery-Foods.com on the The Bogus Chile Pepper Cancer Scare of 1994-95.
"...Mark Preston reports:
During late February and early March of 1994, the popular media reported about an article that had appeared in the February, 1994 issue of The American Journal of Epidemiology. The article linked stomach cancer to chile pepper eating. Mostly the story was picked up off the Cox Newservice wire. This brief story, written by Jeff Nesmyth, pretty much quoted what was written in The American Journal of Epidemiology.
The title of the article was: "Chili Pepper Consumption and Gastric Cancer in Mexico: A Case-Control Study." It will be called the Mexico study for the rest of this story. It purports that those who eat chile peppers are "seventeen times more likely" to contract stomach cancer than those who don't eat them. The first thing I felt I had to do was to check the bibliographic citations at the end of the article. They were the key to the study's sensibilities, around which the premise and logic of the study would be based..."
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