[rpnx]

This is the root of the problem.

Take the whole "saturated fat is unhealthy" thing.

Here's what happened:

Study finds that unsaturated fat is healthier than saturated fat, but all fat is associated with lower mortality vs carbs.

Repeated as "unsaturated fat is healther than saturated fat".

Repeated as "saturated fat is unhealthy".

This conclusion isn't supported by any research compared to carbs(!).

Same-calorie diet of high fat is healthier than one based on carbs. But we are often taught otherwise.

The saturated fat is bad (wrong) consensus is reached like a game of telephone.

[cdaringe]

Any recommendations for course correction?

Perhaps paper linting/scoring that penalizes assertive statements linked to references vs direct quotes associated with references?

[sirspacey]

Everything becomes a meme.

I’ve come to appreciate that we communicate mimetically, humans now seem to me more a social-intelligence species than an intelligent one.

We don’t seem to win by fighting against this characteristic, so I’m getting more curious about how to adapt to/with it.

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basically saturated fats are the hostage of any high carb (fried and sugary) diet?