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Watch what you take away from this Tierney article.

The wrong impression to walk away with is to think that this in some way proves that whatever scientific consensus you take issue with might be the result of this false "cascade" theory. The cascade phenomenom preys upon human opinion. As you will read in the article, anyone who applied science to the low-fat diet thinking found it was full of shit.

Pay close attention to this line in particular:
[Dr. Ahrens] pointed out that most of the doctors in the survey were relying on secondhand knowledge because they didn’t work in this field themselves.

That is how you get your faulty, cascading popular theory masquerading as fact. When you turn to physicists and psychologists and other people who've somehow thrown a "Dr." before their name instead of relying on the experts working in the field being questioned, you open the door to bias. So congratulate yourselves, creationists: it's not your fault; you're just aping what smarter people would admit are only their own ignorant opinions (they don't actually have hard evidence to back it up, so it remains the biological equivalent of an objection of heresay).

If it weren't for these people lending their credentials to the opposite conclusion of evidence, we'd be having a very different conversation about a lot of biology today in this friggin' country.

Date: 2007-10-09 08:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chuckro.livejournal.com
This is a sad, slightly disturbing, yet totally unsurprising bit of herd mentality in action.

On the other hand, I'm totally eating a big wedge of full-fat cheese when I get home!

Date: 2007-10-09 08:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityvixen.livejournal.com
Me too! And I had some for lunch as well!

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