It is OK to go to work regularly on an egg, health experts said today as they attempted to dispel "the ingrained misconception" among consumers and some health professionals that people should eat no more than three a week because of the "myth" surrounding the food's link to cholesterol in the blood.

They said the public had not caught up with changing health advice that no longer limited consumption as part of a balanced diet, except for the one in 500 people who had a genetic propensity to high cholesterol.
(Guardian)

Basing advice on crappy science leads to science falling into disrepute.