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As best I can tell: 1. There is a ton of money at stake for a ton of actors. Farmers, processors, manufacturers, restaurants and pharma have huge incentives to
by village-idiot 8y ago
As best I can tell:
1. There is a ton of money at stake for a ton of actors. Farmers, processors, manufacturers, restaurants and pharma have huge incentives to not change things.
2. From my observation, nutrition scientists tend to suffer from herd mentality more than anticipated, for reasons I'm not certain about (although grant money certainly is part of it). Hell, they will even prosecute their own members who don't conform 100% to the official story, it's nuts.
- opportune 8y agoThere are cultural and demographic inclinations within academic fields, and I would bet at least some problems with nutrition science stem from a lack of statistical knowledge on behalf of study authors and readers. Plus I feel like really understanding nutrition science would require much more medical/biology training than nutrition scientists typically receive.