Maybe we just have similar priors here. I grew up around physicists, so I knew how unreliable and biased THOSE guys are. And that's one of the "harder" (=easier lol) sciences. Nutrition science has reversed its opinion on everything about 3x during my lifetime, and I'm not even 40.
And unlike space ships and nuclear fission, it's quite easy for me to reproduce & experiment with nutrition on myself.
So any summary/argument that rests on "the scientific literature says" might as well save its breath.
Oh, when they change their minds, that's a *good* sign...
"Animal Fat is Bad for a Predator" has been the received wisdom since before I was born. I didn't believe it as a little boy, and I don't believe it now.
It may well be true, but they're no closer to proving it than they ever were, after a whole lifetime of banging on about it. All the original fools are dead.
When physics changes its mind, its miracles keep working. And when little details don't fit, physicists are *interested*.
You yourself have proved that researching this sort of thing is not some impossibly hard problem that takes a mega-lab and an Einstein.
That last part is actually the depressing part. If some asshole can do this part-time, how are thousands of professionals with this as their day jobs, and scientific training, missing it?!
That's not depressing, that's opportunities for fun problem-solving and low hanging fruit.
As to how, a system that makes it impossible to do good work, and the fact that people capable of doing good work realise that and get out.
I mean, it's not like the sharpest tools in the box head for soft-science research in the first place, but most of the ones that are any good get out again fast, and go and do something more fulfilling with their lives, like driving nails into their knees or something.
Also less painful. Even hard sciences barely attract talent any more. I grew up with a guy who was the most ideological, science-for-the-greater-good-type guy you can imagine. Studied physics in the UK (this is the guy I asked about King's College, he went to another one but I forget which)... under some guy in a wheelchair IIRC.
By the time he got his PhD they had slapped the enthusiasm and excitement right out of him, and he want straight into management consulting. After 2 years of "voluntary slavery" as a postdoc, he'll probably never touch a science again.
Maybe we just have similar priors here. I grew up around physicists, so I knew how unreliable and biased THOSE guys are. And that's one of the "harder" (=easier lol) sciences. Nutrition science has reversed its opinion on everything about 3x during my lifetime, and I'm not even 40.
And unlike space ships and nuclear fission, it's quite easy for me to reproduce & experiment with nutrition on myself.
So any summary/argument that rests on "the scientific literature says" might as well save its breath.
Oh, when they change their minds, that's a *good* sign...
"Animal Fat is Bad for a Predator" has been the received wisdom since before I was born. I didn't believe it as a little boy, and I don't believe it now.
It may well be true, but they're no closer to proving it than they ever were, after a whole lifetime of banging on about it. All the original fools are dead.
When physics changes its mind, its miracles keep working. And when little details don't fit, physicists are *interested*.
You yourself have proved that researching this sort of thing is not some impossibly hard problem that takes a mega-lab and an Einstein.
That last part is actually the depressing part. If some asshole can do this part-time, how are thousands of professionals with this as their day jobs, and scientific training, missing it?!
That's not depressing, that's opportunities for fun problem-solving and low hanging fruit.
As to how, a system that makes it impossible to do good work, and the fact that people capable of doing good work realise that and get out.
I mean, it's not like the sharpest tools in the box head for soft-science research in the first place, but most of the ones that are any good get out again fast, and go and do something more fulfilling with their lives, like driving nails into their knees or something.
Also less painful. Even hard sciences barely attract talent any more. I grew up with a guy who was the most ideological, science-for-the-greater-good-type guy you can imagine. Studied physics in the UK (this is the guy I asked about King's College, he went to another one but I forget which)... under some guy in a wheelchair IIRC.
By the time he got his PhD they had slapped the enthusiasm and excitement right out of him, and he want straight into management consulting. After 2 years of "voluntary slavery" as a postdoc, he'll probably never touch a science again.
Give him my regards, and tell him I admire his powers of endurance. I bailed before I even got my doctorate.