"we tend to think of the 19c as an era of wholesome food" ... if we happen to be historically illiterate, completely bonkers or both, sure, I suppose we might. I tend to think of the 19c as an era when ppl like John Harvey Kellogg were taken *completely seriously on all points*.
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(it's complicated, as usual: tbf, he was an early believer in the symbiotic role of intestinal flora. otoh, he ran a sanitarium whose SOP was, every new admit, first of all and without exception, was to have an enema, administered by a person with the title of "Rear Admiral".)
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The author of the piece is a leading Science Journalism kommissar. She was prominent in the attack on Tim Hunt a few years ago. She produces a ghastly imitation of science coverage, and trains others to do the same.
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ah, unsurprising an era of "theory derived more from Biblical exegesis than from empirical study and which dictates one must have sth organic put up one's bum at prescribed intervals and be fed bland crackers to ensure one doesn't ever fap" doesn't seem to trouble her much, then
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btw, surely we all do still have some abstract awareness that journalistic "royal we" isn't in itself proof that whatever follows is some hideous kultur-kommissar bullshit but, yaknow, statistically, it is *just about close enough* ...
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it's gotten to the point where if a headline so much as *starts with a first-person plural pronoun* my eyes are already glazing over
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I think it has to do with knowing your audience. The Atlantic, for instance, probably has a good idea of its demographics, so the “we” is a legitimate cultural delineator.
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sure, it's just that one finds oneself just outside the delineated circle only so often before one eventually stops assuming this must have been some sort of mistake or oversight on the authors' part
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