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Popular nutrition science suffers from correlation fallacy. Unless they can explain the causal mechanism, or at least hypothesize, it's practically bankrupt.

Popular nutrition science suffers from correlation fallacy. Unless they can explain the causal mechanism, or at least hypothesize, it's practically bankrupt. Plus, there is a lot of incentive to transition self-medicators off of alcohol and nicotine and onto SSRIs, diabetes medication, anti-anxiety meds and more profitable products.

djhn 2y ago
Pretty sure alcohol has much higher margins. Most first, second and third line of treatment psych meds have been out of patent for a while now and cost pennies.
- tonymet 2y ago
  You're missing the aggregate and lifetime opportunity .