BTW I'm so glad to hear you say this! You are the sort of person I've been thinking of recently, with a little bit of despair: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1118979330657243136 …,https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1119625059914735616 …
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Replying to @zooko @KevinSimler and
I guess you might be thinking "oh—nutrition... I'd rather not try to think about that. It's too subtle and complicated. It's actually determined by human psychology (gluttony and sloth). It's idiosyncratic to genetics and to individuals..." ...
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Replying to @zooko @KevinSimler and
... Don't be dissuaded. *Those are the defense mechanisms of the dominant pseudoscience.* Human nutrition is objectively the most important field for public policy today, and you should be able to convince yourself in only a couple of hours of study that something is rotten.
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I have been ranting about this since 1988… https://meaningness.com/nutrition pic.twitter.com/o1KQzZKbzc
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I've read your rants! I think you may be falling for a "scorched earth retreat" from the dominant faction, who have been quietly replacing their long-standing strong claims and prescriptions with "actually nobody knows anything" over the last ten years...
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Replying to @zooko @Meaningness and
It's an interesting method of historical revisionism from them. Having been loudly, confidently wrong, and having held all of the levers of power for decades, they can't admit that their skeptics were right all along but instead claim "actually nobody knows anything".
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Well fwiw I read a fair amount of the nutrition literature, including from dissenting factions, at a “lay person who has done graduate work in biochemistry” level, and although I’d love to believe paleo is true because it’s so tasty, the evidential base doesn’t look much better.
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Without needing to vet paleo or any other niche ideas, you can identify major positions that the nutrition mainstream promoted strongly and consistently and that shape entire nations today, which they (the same people), have subsequently quietly backed away from.
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Replying to @zooko @Meaningness and
And you can find historical critics who — without necessarily advocating for a particular niche alternative — were calling out, at the time, the pseudoscience that the mainstream has subsequently quietly stopped talking about.
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Replying to @zooko @Meaningness and
And, you can observe that this "quiescent", no longer actively defended, theory is still the operating theory controlling public policy such as the contents of all school lunches, as well as influencing all of medicine *outside* of nutrition.
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I think you may be missing the function of the field :) https://meaningness.com/nutrition-resigns …pic.twitter.com/4osQK8QH2N
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Lol, yeah I remember that rant of yours. "Haha only serious"—ouch.
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