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> I didn't really believe any of this in 2018, and my meal plan then consisted entirely of everything that I can't eat today. I suspect you had the same degree
by Permit 5y ago
> I didn't really believe any of this in 2018, and my meal plan then consisted entirely of everything that I can't eat today.
I suspect you had the same degree of confidence in your understanding of these issue then as you do now. It's interesting that you can reflect on your overconfidence in the past, but don't seem to express any skepticism regarding your current beliefs surrounding nutrition.
By the way, I'm not saying that you're wrong! GMOs may be bad, but I think you would do well to level some degree of skepticism over your current understanding of nutrition as you do toward your past understanding. Consider that perhaps you will be here in 2026 telling us about how you got it wrong today.
- omreaderhn 5y agoThere's an asymmetry in the risks associated with choosing either a) to restrict or b) not to restrict the set of foods you eat. Overconfidence in (b) carries more risk than overconfidence in (a). The set of chemicals that are toxic is much larger (as in >>>) than the set of chemicals that are necessary for sustaining life.
- closeparen 5y agoThe set of nutrients that will cause some kind of problem if missing is actually pretty large; consensus dietary advice usually includes the keyword “varied.”
- omreaderhn 5y agoI never said it wasn't a large set.