[ExI] Fwd: nutrition again

Dave Sill sparge at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 11:37:17 UTC 2016


Trying again since it bounced the first time.

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From: Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ExI] nutrition again
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>


Just read this article:


http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin

And had to bring it up here. A quote:

*A scientist is part of what the Polish philosopher of science Ludwik Fleck
called a “thought collective”: a group of people exchanging ideas in a
mutually comprehensible idiom. The group, suggested Fleck, inevitably
develops a mind of its own, as the individuals in it converge on a way of
communicating, thinking and feeling. *

*This makes scientific inquiry prone to the eternal rules of human social
life: deference to the charismatic, herding towards majority opinion,
punishment for deviance, and intense discomfort with admitting to error. Of
course, such tendencies are precisely what the scientific method was
invented to correct for, and over the long run, it does a good job of it.
In the long run, however, we’re all dead, quite possibly sooner than we
would be if we hadn’t been following a diet based on poor advice.*

The article makes a strong case for placing most of the blame on science.
-Dave
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