The Sound Of Settled Science

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Everything we are told is true will eventually be proven wrong.

“Saturated fat does not cause heart disease”–or so concluded a big study published in March in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. How could this be? The very cornerstone of dietary advice for generations has been that the saturated fats in butter, cheese and red meat should be avoided because they clog our arteries. For many diet-conscious Americans, it is simply second nature to opt for chicken over sirloin, canola oil over butter.
The new study’s conclusion shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with modern nutritional science, however. The fact is, there has never been solid evidence for the idea that these fats cause disease.

Until it’s proven true again, of course.

19 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

  2. The quoted paragraphs are from a link, I presume.  Is there a link on the page?  Can’t see one…

  4. I fail to understand the science of these studies that prove a certain item is deadly to us, only to have another study a few years later that comes to the opposite conclusion.
    I will never forgive the “scientists” who told us in the 70’s that coffee was a pure killer and we should cut it out completely. I never drank coffee for TWO WHOLE DAYS! (yes,I’m yelling!)
    I missed about four cups of dark aromatic perfection because of those bastards!
    Being the cynic I am, my conclusion is that “science” is bought and sold by interested parties and the results broadcast far and wide to further the agenda of the sponsor. Two words should never be used in the same sentence,”science” and “integrity”. In my lifetime, scientists have plunged on the scale of trust from demi-gods to slightly below streetwalkers.

  6. Enjoying my “Eggs St. Benedict” with a butter based Hollandaise sauce.
    Simply Divine…and if your worried about artery clogging then the solution is to call an artery plumber.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  7. As soon as “science” says something is bad for me,I double it. Yes high choletral is not good,but shoving 3000 eggs and two gallons of milk,followed by 30 steaks down some poor rats throat is not science. As don says above,they are and have been bought and sold to come to the “RIGHT” conclusion.

  9. Sat fat by itself is not a problem. The problems start when sat fat is consumed with sugar and or carbohydrates which oxidize fats and make them stickier and more prone to gum up the plumbing.
    Steak? No problem. Steak, mashed potatoes and beer? Trouble!
    I don’t care if you believe me. I lost 100 lbs, dropped my bp 60 points, returned my cholesterol to normal and run marathons now doing this. And I don’t care what some “expert” says either! I also don’t care what anyone else chooses to eat. Its their business! But what I hate most of all is some expert or government telling me to eat! They are inevitably wrong.

  10. ‘For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.’
    Arthur C. Clarke

  11. Science never said saturated fat was bad. That was the problem– there was never an science to establish the policy position of the government. The scientists that testified before the McGovern committee cautioned there was no science to support it and the high carb low fat was an experiment being foisted on the American people. Now there is a diabesity epidemic.
    There is a difference between science and journalistic spin on an individual study. Every study bears multiple interpretations because in real living things there are a multitude of causalities and they cannot all be controlled for. One has to learn to interpret well what the data actually shows or does not show. One has to learn who is adept at interpretation and who is not.

  12. A friend of mine who wears a lab coat at the U of A doing medical research once explained to me that when the media says ‘studies show’ the actual meaning is ‘studies would seem to indicate’. He says that any honest researcher would NEVER say ‘studies show’ because there is always some element of doubt in a study.

  14. CVD is probably largely caused by smoking and or burning fires and inhaling the smoke. Don’t let anyone tell you different. Now please put the fat back in my yogurt.

  15. Unless the so called researchers asked for the so called reporters to cover their story it is entirely on the pointy heads of the media.
    Studies show that reporters make stuff up and get the rest wrong in any case.

  18. If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
    — Ernest Rutherford

  19. And had we not spent the last 500000 years sitting around a fire it would be much worse
    no other animal can stand fire at all

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