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Some areas of science are mostly quackery. Nutrition for one. Some areas are resistant to quackery like physics and chemistry. And most are a mix like medicine.
by theparanoid 10y ago
Some areas of science are mostly quackery. Nutrition for one. Some areas are resistant to quackery like physics and chemistry. And most are a mix like medicine.
In school we're taught that every field is as self correcting as physics. Reality seems to be different.
- fao_ 10y ago> Nutrition for one. "Nutrition" isn't an area of science. Dietetics is, and is a very firm and established field. A lot of the false claims and bad dietary advice come from Nutritionists, which (in the UK at least) isn't a protected term. Anyone can claim to be a Nutritionist, and Nutritionists aren't known for rigourous data.