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sykhotic
8y ago
It’s not disconfirming since it’s possible that eating fats is bad but also that replacing fats with sugar is bad too or possibly even worse than eating fats. There are also other possibilities to explain why eating too many fats is bad ev
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sykhotic
8y ago
But if twice as much is spent on marketing then in the case of pharmaceuticals it appears this is inefficient. These drugs tend to be necessary for people in ways that Google is not. There are cases where people live in penury due to high
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sykhotic
8y ago
Without further evidence/study one can’t conclude much. We have two facts: 1. There was a campaign against eating fats. 2. There was an obesity epidemic that started shortly after the campaign against eating fats. Fact 2 is seductiv
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sykhotic
8y ago
This is the same quality material that has been used to promote eating less fat for several decades, while obesity exploded to record levels. It’s a bit ironic you are questioning the study with regards to causality and then mention obesi