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Snopes does a pretty good dissection of this including appropriately putting the research study in proper light: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wheat-toxic/

• hamilyon2 7y ago
  I like hacker news because it always provides different opinion and new aspect of any problem. Thank you.
  • fao_ 7y ago
    > I like hacker news because it always provides different opinion and new aspect of any problem. Learning to google and doing a cursory check of news using snopes would do the same. Something I have noticed is that people do not seem to do either of those things. I have personally observed that people (with degrees, no less) would rather make an assumption about a topic in the presumed absence of information, rather than actually check that such informatio is available. In one case I was able to show that with a very, very simple google search consisting of two words the information was clearly available within 10 seconds. I do not think this is due to laziness or apathy, as they fail to do this even in cases where they are expending energy on arguing something.
• lumberingjack 7y ago
  How can you trust snoops their way worse. Is a comet made of ice? check mark false orange bad that is basically what every one of these say.