> And yet, the food pyramid continues to exist. Scientists disputed it at the time it was introduced only to be blackballed.
Change takes time. Do you have any theory (besides "FDA are idiots") about why exactly the food pyramid is still taught in school? I doubt it's a conspiracy of Big Food, because they can easily switch their "Fit" product lines from low-fat to low-carb and people buying it probably wouldn't even notice the change.
Personally, I'm betting inertia, which is an inseparable part of the way big groups of people work. But whatever the reason will turn out to be, it most definitely won't be proving that the FDA is torturing citizens.
> Who is this "everyone else"? And are you suggesting we want people doing whatever they think is wrong?
No, I am suggesting that we want people doing whatever is right, as opposed to whatever they think is right. Those two things don't always overlap in large societies.
> For the love of god, go back to high school science class. You have it backwards, in so so many ways.
Now do I? Please elaborate on those ways. I stand by my assertion. Disease spread patterns are simple, because they follow relatively simple rules that are easy to verify empirically. Dietetics on the other hand is very hard for the same reason psychology is very hard - both fields are based around understanding insanely complex mechanisms and it's almost almost impossible to set up clean double-blind experiments with large samples for them, pushing practitioners to pursue advanced statistical methods that they aren't really equipped to handle. Thus both fields are mostly filled with bogus and bullshit results, making it unwise to believe anything there until it has been thoroughly analyzed and replicated many, many times.
> You're calling yourself and your family mentally ill criminals?
You started with torture and mental wards. I'm only adjusting it slightly. The important point to note is that governments don't magically appear - they are born out of people's desire to set up some rules as they notice that "everyone doing whatever they think is right" only leads to death, destruction and pain.
But still; on large scale, people really are idiots. And yes, myself and my family are also idiots in many contexts, though understanding the difference between local and global optimization helps in becoming smarter in time.
Change takes time. Do you have any theory (besides "FDA are idiots") about why exactly the food pyramid is still taught in school? I doubt it's a conspiracy of Big Food, because they can easily switch their "Fit" product lines from low-fat to low-carb and people buying it probably wouldn't even notice the change.
Personally, I'm betting inertia, which is an inseparable part of the way big groups of people work. But whatever the reason will turn out to be, it most definitely won't be proving that the FDA is torturing citizens.
> Who is this "everyone else"? And are you suggesting we want people doing whatever they think is wrong?
No, I am suggesting that we want people doing whatever is right, as opposed to whatever they think is right. Those two things don't always overlap in large societies.
> For the love of god, go back to high school science class. You have it backwards, in so so many ways.
Now do I? Please elaborate on those ways. I stand by my assertion. Disease spread patterns are simple, because they follow relatively simple rules that are easy to verify empirically. Dietetics on the other hand is very hard for the same reason psychology is very hard - both fields are based around understanding insanely complex mechanisms and it's almost almost impossible to set up clean double-blind experiments with large samples for them, pushing practitioners to pursue advanced statistical methods that they aren't really equipped to handle. Thus both fields are mostly filled with bogus and bullshit results, making it unwise to believe anything there until it has been thoroughly analyzed and replicated many, many times.
> You're calling yourself and your family mentally ill criminals?
You started with torture and mental wards. I'm only adjusting it slightly. The important point to note is that governments don't magically appear - they are born out of people's desire to set up some rules as they notice that "everyone doing whatever they think is right" only leads to death, destruction and pain.
But still; on large scale, people really are idiots. And yes, myself and my family are also idiots in many contexts, though understanding the difference between local and global optimization helps in becoming smarter in time.