Sinsull, you have been completely misinformed about the African fibre thing. The researcher in question was Denis Burkitt, who first discovered the aetiology of Burkitt's lymphoma (which thanks to his work has gone from certain death to being almost always easily curable).

At the time Burkitt was working, very few doctors had any idea that fibre was good for anything, and standard nutritional advice was to avoid it as far as possible. Burkitt noticed that some diseases of Western civilization were much rarer in Africa and set out finding why. He was dedicated enough to take scaled photos of turds so he could correlate their size with the local disease pattern. The result of years of work was the modern pictuire of what fibre does for you, which was almost enturely due to just two researchers, Burkitt and J.P. Cleave (who investigated the patterns of illness he saw as a surgeon in the British Army). Burkitt was NOT paid to do his African fibre research, he did it in his own time while working on cancer epidemiology. It was far outside the medical paradigms of the period and nobody could have got funded to work on it.

As filtered umpteenth-hand through the garbage media you've been exposed to and been credulous enough not to question, a research career that has saved thousands of people's lives and caused a huge reduction in avoidable chronic illness ends up being dismissed as a trivial obsession with scatology.