Back to the “most pub hlth policy begins with no evidence” well, it’s bc we know that, we should be mandated to critically review these policies in their historical context??
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Here’s the bigger issue - we’ve got NCDs as greatest global threat, and it appears the go to solution is National Food Guidelines (NFG) - when every nation with NFG have led with highest rates of NCDs! As an Epi, does that not ring alarm bells with you?
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I don't think anyone's positioning the guidelines as a solution, in particular the guidelines themselves which talk at length about the importance of social/environmental change for real impact
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@WHO is encouraging developing nations to “get some NFGs” .... Here in Australia, articles like yours are defending status quo and imply - if you criticize, it’s bc you can’t science. It shuts down debate - and serious and urgent debate3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
I think developing guidelines is a good (an important) step in advocating for social interventions. Hard to convince politicians to legislate when you don't have solid recommendations
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Saying that something is politically expedient is different from saying “disagreement is a person ‘ignoring science’”.
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Replying to @indigo5alpha @WeDietitians and
True fact. Fortunately the guidelines are both politically expedient and based on robust scientific evidence
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You have many professionals disagreeing with you on the latter point, and have not engaged on the history of DG (evidence against robustness), instead relying on the NHMRC to do the review, and then shifting the goalposts to say that it's politically expedient for public policy.
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Replying to @indigo5alpha @WeDietitians and
I have ~far more~ professionals agreeing with me, they just don't jump into my mentions to do so lol. I'm also not going to do my own review of the evidence, I think the NHMRC has that pretty well covered and I don't have 2 years' of my life to dedicate to it anyway!
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It's no surprise you have ~far more~ agreeing...that's kind of the problem
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The point being that who agrees/disagrees with you on twitter is not a good measure of the robustness of an argument
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No one is claiming "twitter is a credibility-o-meter" - in fact you've said yourself, those who agree with you are not lighting up your @ mentions so your point is somewhat moot. Similarly "whose argument is more robust" has not been raised (till now)?
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