Hi,
This is so weird ... by the time you bake, or fry the bacon, or the beacan, you have taken out about 90% of its salt, and in the early days, they used to feed older folks with heart problems, bacon that was overcooked, and nearly burnt, because it helped keep it working.
Bacon, is no more dangerous than bad needles and bad hospitals, and such. My own dad died of cancer in 1979 and I can tell you that we did not have a whole lot of bacon at the house, although mom used hocks when she made a "feijoada".
According to our team trainer on the tennis team, and he was a really good nutrition knowledgeable person, it was not what you ate as much as how you moved it, but he did say that things like hamburgers, and hot dogs had a way to slow down going through your system, which was far worse to your digestion and physical abililtiy to go to the court an hour later, than a strip or two of bacon ... but he also suggested that the bigger problem was the bread, not the meat!
I think this is just advertising and bad publicity ... folks inventing stories for the fun of it, and their studies are so fake it's not funny! Not to mention a vey gullible audience!