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The article isn't really about the supplement industry, though. It's about news media's complete inability to do anything investigative, as evidenced by the fac
by Kronopath 11y ago
The article isn't really about the supplement industry, though. It's about news media's complete inability to do anything investigative, as evidenced by the fact that this guy, with a handful of publicly accessible tools and websites, was able to find more information on this scandal in an hour then the journalists who were covering this case.
- alexashka 11y agoThere is no consequence for selling quackery/products that suck. There is no consequence for writing quackery/products that suck. They are not separate phenomena. They are one and the same, done by different organizations. I should go a step further and say sometimes the way incentives align - you are actually encouraged to sell quackery, it is very profitable. Any system that doesn't actively discourage the possibility of quackery being profitable is mediocre at it's root. It's just mediocrity that goes unchecked. It is the same problem every time.
- eldavido 11y agoYep. The lesson I take from this: don't be so quick to denigrate liberal arts and traditional university education. The kind of skills one learns in college, namely, the ability to do independent research, to write well, to think critically, and to make moral judgments, are precisely what's been taught as part of a classic liberal curriculum since Roman times. We can talk about how expensive it is, and that there may be better delivery methods, but per se liberal arts education will only become more important as the clickbait / spam / dreck-production machine of ads / neutraceuticals, etc. kicks into higher gear.