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you're missing the point that not all of it was bullshit nutrition science. Research is an ongoing process.

• vlovich123 4y ago
  It’s an ongoing process but I don’t think anyone can look at this field and see anything other than low quality science with no theoretical model explaining anything and results that often seem like they are driven by conclusions instead of the other way round. Maybe something has changed in the past 10-20 years but certainly the amount of contradictory conclusions in this field is quite high And not like any other more established scientific discipline. To me it’s more in the alchemy phase rather than modern chemistry.
• concinds 4y ago
  The 'bullshit' was mostly not spread by scientists, but by media. When the findings of scientific studies are twisted and manipulated, and when a study that shows X is treated as if it proved X, and Y, and Z, there's no better word for that than 'bullshit science'. The studies were far too low quality to prove anything, or even show us what's directionally correct. What better term is there? It wasn't pseudoscience, because the studies were real, and addressed scientific topics. It wasn't scientific fraud, because again the studies were real. But the implications 'derived' from them by motivated media were completely made up. My dictionary calls that 'bullshit'. Also see: https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1592663902802055168 https://twitter.com/fleroy1974/status/1592663902802055168