It's essentially making a scientific field responsible for delivering what people want from it. What people want from it is a collection of one weird tricks. Th

It's essentially making a scientific field responsible for delivering what people want from it. What people want from it is a collection of one weird tricks. They want good news. They want to hear that it's okay to eat as many donuts as you want, as long as you don't eat red meat, or that it's okay to eat red meat as long as you drink red wine, or that two kale smoothies per week will keep you "clean" of the "toxins" that cause overweight, depression, and shame about your work rival's kid going to a better college than yours. We've looked for those answers, and they don't exist. But the media has to deliver them anyway, so they do, and they cherry-pick and misinterpret studies to do so. Some attention-hungry researchers cater to them, and a lot of doctors with more ambition than shame try to get rich selling books and supplements. We're not limited by our nutritional knowledge anyway. When it comes to eating and health, we have much bigger problems to solve than the current nutritional unknowns. Most individual members of society suffer from ignorance and false beliefs that are way, way worse than the uncertainties and false results in nutritional science, and most people feel psychologically incapable of acting on what they think they know anyway. Any forces trying to educate and empower people are massively outgunned by shamelessly unprincipled hucksters filling the air with whatever noise they can sell on one hand and blatantly evil food industry marketing on the other.