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I have been ranting about this since 1988… https://meaningness.com/nutrition pic.twitter.com/o1KQzZKbzc
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...
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".
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.
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.
Oh, absolutely. I think the general public has caught on to this, in fact. Nutrition at this point is taken seriously only by the sorts of people who take astrology seriously.
That hits close to home.
It makes me sad, because actually there is such vast opportunity for advancement of human knowledge and welfare if we only had a functioning scientific process on this topic.
Yes… but… It’s true that nutrition as a discipline is utterly corrupt and every bad scientific practice is rife there. OTOH, “knowledge of X would be super valuable” does not imply “we have any current way of gaining knowledge of X.”
Oh, I'm specifically claiming that reliable and useful knowledge about human nutrition is easy to come by! I know that differs from your take, and indeed from almost everyone's.
[maybe we should drop Kevin and James if we go further on this…]
That is, by self-experimentation?
Good idea to untag innocent bystanders. No, by controlled experiments, mechanism theories, and especially — as I alluded to before — by the evidence from pathology. Also rigorous evolutionary arguments (not sloppy ones).
Ah, that’s promising! What is the #1 thing you’d recommend I read?
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