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Scientists can’t agree whether salt is killing us

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Re: Scientists can’t agree whether salt is killing us

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The fact that you can eat a lot of salt, with out instant harm , always makes people think twice on reports like this . Same is true with sugar reports and fat as well . So what is this a vegan conspiracy to make us all go veg ! Unlikely , but consumers should Recognize that consumption not in moderation will lead to unwelcomed results . Try This rule as an example , many people like olive oil , many people say eating lots of olive oil is good for you . No one equates this as drinking a pint of olive oil as a good idea , nor eating 1/7 of that a day for a week . The bigger issue with this study is how pervasive doctored food has become . Yesterday Bloomberg news had a story how Parmesan and other grated hard Italian cheeses have become regularly doctored with wood pulp as a filler . Once wools pulp tastes like well , wood , one would expect salt to be added t this product to cover the wood content . A similar analogy can be made with regards to olive oils . Many providers filter and treat lower quality oil to make it appear as a higher quality product . It's not as bad as Chinese "Gutter Oil" but the fact that we have food health studies with out super strict food quality enforcement, in my humble opinion leads the biased reports or studies with flawed data .

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Why does a respectable news outlet/paper like the Washington Post lower itself to clickbait titles.. I don't get it.

Titles like "Scientists can't decide" always grate on me. Almost as bad as "Science has found out x!".

Emotional titles grate me this not so much. I hate the You will be Amazed when ...

I think I highly prefer to read "Scientist can't decide" because that means there is an interesting story/data to look at normally. I also find it a lot more honest then saying "Scientist" when there is equal amount of doubt in an article.

Re: Scientists can’t agree whether salt is killing us

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"the image is dominated by red and blue, a sign that scientists are more likely to cite the research that conforms to their outlook." Or a sign that the green lines were drawn first, and test red and blue overlaid.

Agreed. This is a terrible graphic. I have no idea what's going on for any data point except the few on the edges.
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