Nutrition Research Lowered Its Standards Due to the Difficulty of Human Trials
Gary Taubes · #25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us · Nov 30, 2017 · at 5:29
Gary Taubes explains to Shane Parrish why nutritional science fell behind physics in experimental rigor and empirical verification.
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“Very difficult, if not impossible, to do right, and so what the nutrition and public health research communities did is they just lowered their standards for what they would consider reliable knowledge, and this just became sort of, ah, inculcated throughout the entire community, such that these people almost, to me, I feel like they almost forget What it takes to do reliable knowledge, and they say, they justify it by they say the issues are so important, people are dying out there, therefore we don't have time to dot the I's and cross the T's and make sure that we're right about our hypotheses, and to me the really scientific response is, well, if you don't have time to dot the I's and cross the T's, you have no idea whether you're right.”
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