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That is an awfully strong statement. Do you have qualifications to dismissed the entire field, or is more of an opinion? And even though it's not up to your (ad
by throwaway5752 8y ago
That is an awfully strong statement. Do you have qualifications to dismissed the entire field, or is more of an opinion? And even though it's not up to your (admittedly best case) standard, don't population studies, twin studies, et al have some value. It seems it would be effectively impossible to research anything at all about nutrition otherwise.
- toasterlovin 8y agoShow me your favorite nutritional study and I’ll be happy to explain why it can’t actually tell us anything about the long term effects of diet on health.
- em500 8y agoAs a professional statistician I support the statement that most nutrition studies suffer from grave methodological problems. See https://www.vox.com/2016/1/14/10760622/nutrition-science-complicated https://www.vox.com/2016/1/14/10760622/nutrition-science-com... for a good layman writeup.
- toasterlovin 8y agoOverall a good write up, but that they end with a consensus statement by nutrition researchers after explaining why no nutrition research is really capable of telling us anything is just about the perfect encapsulation of what is wrong with nutrition research and reporting on the subject.