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Yeah that's a good one. Another is recommending trans-fat based margarine over butter. That was counter-productive health advice that took decades to reverse -
by eloff 6y ago
Yeah that's a good one.
Another is recommending trans-fat based margarine over butter. That was counter-productive health advice that took decades to reverse - even although the evidence it was based on was extremely flimsy.
Once the group-think machine gets going in a direction, it has a tremendous amount of inertia.
- logicchains 6y ago>That was counter-productive health advice that took decades to reverse - even although the evidence it was based on was extremely flimsy. I think this was more a case of lobbying by certain agricultural producers than ignorance. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14823257_Food_Lobbies_the_Food_Pyramid_and_US_Nutrition_Policy https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14823257_Food_Lobbi...
- pdimitar 6y agoTrue, but the point still stands: a lot of people can be influenced by something no matter its origins. Once they can say "X thousand can't be wrong" then you and your pesky idea backed up by facts and evidence can go to hell. Sadly history is full of such occurrences.