for anyone who wants to learn about how scientific knowledge can be influenced through manipulation of data and then disseminated to the masses by biased media, the way scientists with differing theories that don’t align with institutional and corporate interests can be discredited and dismissed by the loudest most persuasive authoritative voices in the room, and the TRUTH about dietary fats that the sugar lobby doesn’t want you to know…
“This makes scientific inquiry prone to the eternal rules of human social life: deference to the charismatic, herding towards majority opinion, punishment for deviance, and intense discomfort with admitting to error. Of course, such tendencies are precisely what the scientific method was invented to correct for, and over the long run, it does a good job of it. In the long run, however, we’re all dead, quite possibly sooner than we would be if we hadn’t been following a diet based on poor advice.”
