Although I'm pro-milk, I do find these connections suspect. In modern times, most of us agree that we should "follow the science". But few people are actual sc

Although I'm pro-milk, I do find these connections suspect. In modern times, most of us agree that we should "follow the science". But few people are actual scientists, who can check the facts themselves. Instead, we treat "follow the science" tribally and accept as "scientific" whatever source we trust by other (non scientific) means. For example, we trust as "scientific" people with the same political alignment. As such, I find it pretty useless whenever I hear about a study saying "x is bad/good for you". It's not like I can check. (There's a website listing headlines about how eggs, sleeping, and the rest, both cause, prevent, and have no effect on cancer, obesity, and the rest. I can't find it right now though.) The only guiding principles I find useful are: * has it been used for multiple decades, centuries, millennia => probably good * has it been banned in multiple countries => probably bad