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We place similar expectations on legal and medical advice We do and received terrible medical advice during the latest pandemic while people trying to correct
by blfr 5y ago
We place similar expectations on legal and medical advice
We do and received terrible medical advice during the latest pandemic while people trying to correct it were getting banned from social media. We are also reaping results of decades of terrible dietary advice.
The track record for censorship isn't great.
- morelisp 5y agoYou're right, the unregulated dietary supplements market looks so much better!
- blfr 5y agoYou're trying to mock my comment but schizoid posters on twitter pushing their supplements often do have better dietary advice than USDA. The bar set by credentialed experts is so low, people who likely belong in an institution can clear it.
- logicchains 5y agoUnregulated dietary supplements have killed way fewer people than obesity.
- taneq 5y agoAlso very good points. The WHO in particular should face heavy criticism for their early handling (or non-handling) of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pretty much everything they said for the first 3 months was about as wrong and harmful as it was possible to be, and seemed entirely driven by political rather than health considerations. The dietary advice thing is mental the deeper you look into it, too. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Wait, it was Kelloggs saying that. More than two eggs a day will make you die of heart disease? Apparently not any more. Was that dodgy advice from the pork board or did Big Egg just buy off the right people? Fat is bad for you and makes you fat, says CSR. Actually sugar makes you fat AND causes cancer, but dietary fat is fine, says Brownes Dairy.