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Zoë Harcombe's primary value appears to be providing reading material for a specific audience of anti-establishment contrarians. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Zo%C3%AB_Harcombe

Thank you for your civil and balanced reply. I don't mind that contrarians like Seyfried exist and ask questions. They appeal to my contrarian and skeptic nature. What I have an is…

I wouldn't page David Sinclair about any supplements. See: Resveratrol.

That doctor (Seyfried) is not a great doctor either. He is an antiestablishment, contrarian ideologue who omits data and arranges his facts to fit his hypothesis. Sure, cancer migh…

I think this is a solid take. Not a hater of Elon, but the last year has made it difficult to remain impartial on anything about him. Billionaires, you're not sending your best.

Maybe you missed the part where I did not dismiss the results of the study. I simply took the next logical step and pointed out that vitamin D has not been proven as a preventative…

I think that full vaccination and reasonable measures for masks/social-distancing are still the best approach for trying to halt the spread/damage of covid. Realistically, I can't …

This is a strange way of titling that article, I think. Not very responsible journalism, but I get that this is the kind of title that generates clicks. Vitamin D doesn't "fight" C…

Perhaps better than the current labeling system, but I think there are a wide range of foods where whether or not they are good for you depends largely on your specific health and …

Tragically accurate comment.

So data is the new gold... I'll stick with actual gold.

I found this article to be unnecessarily complex. Can banks and lending institutions create money out of thin air? Contrary to the title of this article, in the US the answer is ye…

Shouldn't be difficult to get a long gun you have valid ID, no felonies, no history of violent use of firearms (or threatening display), no sex offenses, no misdemeanors and don't …

California has hurdles to clear (universal background check law, a 10-day waiting period, limits on handgun purchases, a microtracking system, a personal safety test, a ban on assa…

Although beef and other animal ruminants have always been part of the planet's carbon cycle where carbon sources are kept in balance by carbon sinks. What knocks us out of balance …

Brazil is the dominant food producer in the Western Hemisphere. I didn't mean to bring up soybeans with regard to deforestation (although it is a factor), I used the soybeans examp…

This is true. Many people think that you can just get rid of livestock and grow kale. It doesn't work like that. Still others think you can get rid of livestock, which eliminates t…

Q: If I give up meat, will Brazil reduce its cattle ranching? A: No. Brazil isn't raising livestock for the US or North America. Not even 1% of their livestock products are importe…

Where does 50% of all fertilizer come from? Animal waste/manure. Where does the rest of fertilizer come from? It is synthesized from fossil fuels...

What is a net positive about "stop eating meat" unless you're livestock? From a nutrition perspective it's not a positive thing to "stop eating meat". Besides changing your diet th…

The supporting study: Flavonoid intake is associated with lower mortality in the Danish Diet Cancer and Health Cohort https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11622-x "Dietary da…

Just playing devil's advocate here. Are you sure there is enough arable land and healthy topsoil to meet demand? Is it feasible or practical to create arable land and topsoil? If t…

Um, people PREFER to be deluded and promised all the sweet things needed that prop up their belief systems. Hence the world is chock full of shysters, hucksters and snakeoil salesm…

Fiber and colorectal diseases: Separating fact from fiction - World Journal of Gastroenterology https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v13/i31/4161.htm Eat as much fiber as you like…