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I found A Chemical Hunger interesting when I first read it, but later people pointed out a whole bunch of severe mistakes (eg. [1] [2] [3]). I don't know, I'm
by n2d4 3y ago
I found A Chemical Hunger interesting when I first read it, but later people pointed out a whole bunch of severe mistakes (eg. [1] [2] [3]).
I don't know, I'm not a nutritionist, but the inaccuracies plus all the potato-conspiracy stuff made me doubtful of SMTM. My main takeaway was that no one, not even people in the field, really knows how food works.
[1] https://nothinginthewater.substack.com/p/contra-smtm-on-obesity-part-2-watersheds https://nothinginthewater.substack.com/p/contra-smtm-on-obes...
[2] https://basedprof.substack.com/p/smtm-mysteries https://basedprof.substack.com/p/smtm-mysteries
[3] https://someflow.substack.com/p/criticisms-of-a-chemical-hunger https://someflow.substack.com/p/criticisms-of-a-chemical-hun...
- DominikPeters 3y agoThere are also these posts, pointing out many inaccuracies: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NRrbJJWnaSorrqvtZ/on-not-getting-contaminated-by-the-wrong-obesity-ideas https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NRrbJJWnaSorrqvtZ/on-not-get... https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7iAABhWpcGeP5e6SB/it-s-probably-not-lithium https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7iAABhWpcGeP5e6SB/it-s-proba... SMTM have never responded to it, and they have lost my confidence for that reason.