Might be useful for parents of kids with epilepsy tho. Presumably it's tracking ketones, and probably easier than strips from the pharmacy long-term
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Yeah but they're marketing it as a weight loss tool! Is the app even useful for kids with epilepsy? Will it try to give them diet tips??pic.twitter.com/qrzUSUKMeq
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Look, you're not wrong. Seems like a gross product that is designed to be bad
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And just, like... fundamentally wrong. Like all those "how to lose belly fat" articles that go "technically you can't spot reduce but here are 5 new ab exercises to slim your tummy"
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It's very deceptive. Selling "personalisation" tools that are basically just boring recommendations but for an enormous amount
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With zero truly meaningful studies demonstrating any clinical benefit. If you actually enjoy keto diets, do you really need a doodad?
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If online sales pitches have taught me nothing else, it's that you ALWAYS need a doodad no matter what the situation
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I’d be so rich if I didn’t have ethics.
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The ongoing disappointment of the skeptical movement. I reckon I could design a banger supplement and "prove" it cured death itself if only I didn't care about things
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I’m a pretty decent talker. Bet I’d be a good saleman. Meanwhile all I ever seen to be doing is telling people, “if that actually worked, I promise I’d sell it to you”.
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It's always depressing, because you're there saying "this is best evidence" and someone else is saying "keto will cure your cancer" and it's so easy to just believe the thing that sounds brilliant
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You can add every hard to treat/incurable chronic sickness to that. I bet there are diets that claim to treat insomnia, migraine, endometriosis, chronic fatigue... And now there's a diet for Covid. Cos grifters gonna grift.
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TIL there's a diet for supposedly making your unborn child not have autism and I kinda want to stab somebodyhttps://twitter.com/bethskw/status/1273304013082066944?s=21 …
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