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This is just downright dangerous too. Imagine a parent seeing this and now depriving their kids from valuable nutrition sources like yoghurt and oats because "t

• 0xEF 2y ago
  This is exactly the thing I am most fearful of. I grew up in the 80's & 90's (US) so I can only speak to that time period, but my mom was especially prone to treating the evening news as a science authority. Their delivery of sensationalized studies had my childhood diet changing by the week and I was not the only kid in school experiencing this. What readers of media outlets fail to remember is that your outlet of choice has worked to earn your trust for a reason. The reporter may even have the best of intentions in delivering news that makes us question bananas or yogurt, but in not recognizing the risks of their presumed authority, they are being grossly negligent and irresponsible with information. It is a problem. We want to be informed, but who do you trust? Even scientific papers are prone to non-scientific influence, the studies themselves sometimes incentivized toward certain outcomes to please the sources of their grant money, or whatever. If we are just supposed to take every bit of info we consume with a grain of salt, the persistent low-grade stress and anxiety that comes with that is equally as damning as just throwing your hat into one particular media outlet's ring and saying "fine, whatever, I trust these guys." This is the stuff that keeps me up at night, if I'm being honest.