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Please explain how they are logical fallacies. Most of the site's content is literal quotes from leading medical and science professionals. No stake in the low
by noondip 11y ago
Please explain how they are logical fallacies. Most of the site's content is literal quotes from leading medical and science professionals.
No stake in the low-carb game? You are kidding, right? Atkins is a for-profit, multi-million dollar corporation, akin to anyone else promoting a diet based on excessive animal product consumption.
- Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 11y agoThe site is a giant appeal to authority. On the 'Atkins Facts' page I didn't manage to find a single fact about why Atkins is bad, only a bunch of quotes saying that it is.
- noondip 11y agoYou couldn't find a single fact? That's odd, because this was written right on the front page: > In fact there does not seem to be a single major governmental or nonprofit medical, nutrition, or science-based organization in the world that supports the Atkins Diet. As a 2004 medical journal review concluded, the Atkins Diet "runs counter to all the current evidence-based dietary recommendations.
- DrScump 11y agofunny how so many statements on that page are marked with footnote numbering, yet no actual footnotes or references are provided.
- noondip 11y agoNo? What do you suppose this is, then? http://www.atkinsfacts.org/printer_friendly.html#8 http://www.atkinsfacts.org/printer_friendly.html#8
- DrScump 11y agoI "suppose" it's a separate page that is not directed to by any of the footnote indicators or visible from the page with the footnote indicators.