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Every time the "fructose is evil" thing gets brought up it seems to be this same scientist talking about it.
by fusiongyro 13y ago
Every time the "fructose is evil" thing gets brought up it seems to be this same scientist talking about it.
- nitrogen 13y agoEvery time God plays dice with the universe, it seems to be that same scientist talking about it. Maybe it's always Robert Lustig because he's the name people already recognize. Maybe he's the one doing most of the research in the area. Sometimes, the public need a figurehead to keep explaining something to us until we get it.
- fusiongyro 13y agoSure. Like the guy who said smoking is bad for you, or the guys who said excessive fat and cholesterol are bad for you. They stood up to Big Agro and fought the good fight. Who were those guys again?
- specialist 13y agoAttention economy, power law distribution of links. A simple googling of "fructose daily consumption" (or equiv) yields zillions of links. It's not like Lustig is a lone wolf.
- r0h1n 13y agoBy itself, that fact conveys nothing. You could've said, "Every time the "NSA is spying on everyone" comes up, it seems to be Glenn Greenwald talking about it". When it comes to Big Food (or Big Pharma, Big Insurance etc.), I'd prefer - at the very minimum - taking any claims against them at face value instead of dismissing them outright. Of course, follow it up with your own research.
- yetanotherphd 13y agoI'm just as concerned about BigContrarianism and BigFadDiets.
- nunb 13y agothe Ivory Tower speaks
- yetanotherphd 13y agowhat does that mean?
- fusiongyro 13y agoYeah, I should check it out with my own research in my own lab. That's how I figured out the truth about vaccination and microbes on Mars.
- yutyut 13y agoOr use the internet and objective reasoning...
- r0h1n 13y agoIf that's the only way you can validate claims and counterclaims made by others, please go ahead. Less resourceful people, like me, prefer a more common-sense approach of searching & reading multiple authors & articles to arrive at something they feel could be reasonably close to the truth.
- nunb 13y agoyeah why is it always Glenn Greenwald? Now don't say "conspiracy" because then you're just being faddist and contrarian.
- anon1385 13y ago>You could've said, "Every time the "NSA is spying on everyone" comes up, it seems to be Glenn Greenwald talking about it". Because Greenwald is in possession of a secret stash of documents leaked to him and only a few other people on the planet have access to those documents. Are you saying that Lustig has some secret data about fructose that only he knows about?
- StavrosK 13y agoIt conveys that the opinion you heard a hundred times isn't a hundred people having the same opinion; it's one person having the opinion a hundred times. It's expert consensus vs a guy being loud.
- aaron695 13y agoThis is true and it also worries me. I always go, good article that agrees with my belief system, who wrote it.... Dam the person who put me onto it in the first place.
- icelancer 13y agoPrimarily because Lustig is the champion of this banner for whatever reason. You can find numerous rebuttals of his psuedoscience from people like Alan Aragon, Lyle McDonald, Leigh Peele, Martin Berkhan, etc.