“We have a regrettable tendency to see what we want to see and rationalize what we already want to do." http://www.salon.com/2013/03/10/paleofantasy_stone_age_delusions/ … via @Salon
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@St_Rev You don't think it's true? Or don't think it's "regrettable"? Bigger question: When -- why -- did dietetics come to be politicized? -
@NineBandedBooks That's not what a dominant trait means. It means a single copy of the gene is sufficient to exhibit lactase persistence.
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@St_Rev Also, it's not the reviewer's sentence; it's the author's. -
@NineBandedBooks I mean the line about "a trait possessed by about 35 percent of the world’s population" in the review. -
@St_Rev Sorry for the confusion. -
@NineBandedBooks The politicization of nutrition is an important phenomenon, too. -
@St_Rev I think it's a new spin on an old fad. Think of Kellog's spas before big agri -- the influence of industrial plumbing infrastucture. -
@NineBandedBooks The Romans loved their baths but that technology was abandoned; why? -
@St_Rev Lead poisoning? Disease? Boredom+? WRT Kellog, point remains that a sciencey metaphor (clogged waterworks) fueled the fad.
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