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> overwhelming majority of scientists claim that consuming meat in quantities we do in North America is not good for health Does your skepticism (which by the
by sridca 8y ago
> overwhelming majority of scientists claim that consuming meat in quantities we do in North America is not good for health
Does your skepticism (which by the way does not really disprove anything what the scientist who wrote this article says, and rather simply tries to discredit it) also extend to these "overwhelming majority of scientists"? Because if it did you will understand that nutrition epidemiology studies are not scientific experiments; they are wildly inaccurate, questionnaire-based guesses (hypotheses) about the possible connections between foods and diseases. This approach has been widely criticized as scientifically invalid [see here(1) and here(2)], yet continues to be used by influential researchers at prestigious institutions.
Even if you think epidemiological methods are sound, at best they can only generate hypotheses that then need to be tested in clinical trials. Instead, these hypotheses are often prematurely trumpeted to the public as implicit fact in the form of media headlines, dietary guidelines, and well-placed commission reports like this one.
Tragically, more than 80%(3) of these guesses are later proved wrong in clinical trials. With a failure rate this high, nutrition epidemiologists would be better off flipping a coin to decide which foods cause human disease.
(1) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2018.00105/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2018.00105...
(2) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2698337 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2698337
(3) https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00506.x https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-...
Ref: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/201901/eat-lancets-plant-based-planet-10-things-you-need-know https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/20190...