Studies that found a link between saturated fat and heart disease may be more likely to get published than those that found no link, which could make the overall picture look more uncertain than it really is.

Studies that found a link between saturated fat and heart disease are more likely to get published than those that found no link — which might make it look like there’s a connection when there isn’t.

We can’t be sure if saturated fat is good or bad for you because the studies are all over the place—some say one thing, others say the opposite, and the measurements aren’t very accurate.

Even when researchers accounted for how many total calories people ate or how much other fats they consumed, the link between saturated fat and heart disease still didn’t show up.

Scientists found a link between eating saturated fat and heart disease by leaving out data from different countries that didn't fit their idea.

Multiple large-scale meta-analyses of prospective cohort studies demonstrate no statistically significant association between dietary saturated fat intake and incidence of coronary heart disease or cardiovascular disease.