This is a leitmotif common in high control groups, they invent " demons" - enemies ( or is it enemas?) to frighten and thus gain control of the group; they then follow this up with a group of controllers, busybodies, people with power that is illusory, to do the bidding of the controlling group. In Ancient Sparta they did the same with The Krypteia, the secret police ( from whence we obtain the word cryptic ( krypton..), the nomenclature changes, the methods do not, Mao and Stalin did the same.
I remember the lecithin nonsense too, though here there is a an element of truth. I used to work as a technician in research food lab, and there was research into using animal lecithins in such products, the two major issues were the variability in the products obtained, and the costs of them, so plant lecithins are used instead, and widely. This was back in the late 70's, and there was utter rubbish spoken by ill informed dolts.
David