Low-Fat Debunked, Scientists Back Low-Vitamin Diet

Scrappleface ^ | 2006-02-08 | Scott Ott

[Tarkin]

(2006-02-08) — In the wake of a $415 million study of 49,000 women showing that a low-fat diet will not prevent, or even reduce the risk, of heart disease and cancer, nutrition experts today said they now believe that the pathway to health is found in eating foods low in vitamins and high in monosodium glutamate (MSG).

(...) “Science works by first making definitive recommendations, and then doing several years of research to discover if we were right,” said an unnamed NIH spokesman. “During the research phase, our job is to vigorously promote our assumptions until the facts disprove them.”

(...) “We feel even stronger about the Paramus Beach Diet than we did about the health effects of reducing dietary fat,” he said. “Americans should trust us, because our faith in our assumptions is rock solid.”

[Tarkin]

Warning - Scrappleface

[ExcursionGuy84]

My grandmother is a health aficionado bur doesn't know "Scrappleface" or Mr. Ott

I suppose I could send her this article and see if she'll fall for it.

[Republican Wildcat]

nutrition experts today said they now believe that the pathway to health is found in eating foods low in vitamins and high in monosodium glutamate (MSG).

LOL!

[Andy from Beaverton]

"You mean I've been eating crap for nothing????"

[Spok]

I stick to the basic four food groups-alcohol, caffeine, salt and grease.

[ExcursionGuy84]

...study of 49,000 women showing that a low-fat diet will not prevent, or even reduce the risk, of heart disease and cancer

I can guess who some of those women were.

I can also wager that more than a few made their way into the US Senate & House of Representatives.

[Jibaholic]

“Science works by first making definitive recommendations, and then doing several years of research to discover if we were right,” said an unnamed NIH spokesman. “During the research phase, our job is to vigorously promote our assumptions until the facts disprove them.”

I didn't know that this thread was about (anthropogenic) global warming!

[KarlInOhio]

I didn't know that this thread was about (anthropogenic) global warming!

If it had been, then the statement would be: “During the research phase, our job is to vigorously promote our assumptions until long after the facts disprove them.”

[ArrogantBustard]

Rosie O'Donut doesn't eat crap.

She eats carpet.

[radiohead]

LOL. Almost got me. Gotta look out for that Scrappleface.

[ghitma]

Well you are what you eat.

[TopQuark]

“Science works by first making definitive recommendations, and then doing several years of research to discover if we were right,” said an unnamed NIH spokesman.

What an abomination: this person does not even know what science is! Science does not make recommendations: social engineers who pretend to be scientists do that. Science formulates hypotheses and withholds judgment until these hypotheses are either refuted (the best outcome) or sufficiently corroborated, in which case they are cautiously accepted for the time being.

This "scientist" is a good example and an explanation why physicists and engineers can send a spacecraft millions o miles away and nutritionists keep changing their minds about everything every two weeks. It's not the complexity of their tasks but the lack of scientific honesty and other values that renders them impotent. And, in the case of the quoted "scientist," also stupid.

[calex59]

Pssst: Hey(in whisper)buddy, this is scrappleface.

[Psalm 73]

"Um, Miss Emily, this is scrappleface."

What's that ? Scrappleface?
Oh, never mind..........

[TopQuark]

this is scrappleface.

And "scrappleface" is something like Shakespeare or Dostoevsky which we must have heard about without comments?

I've not heard of it and unlikely will after this post.

[A knight without armor]

You may as well because sooner or later that diet will be touted as the best, too.

[sandbar]

This is soooo true. People tell me God does not exist because of our beloved scientists and all they 'know'. My father especially, his religion is science. I say there requires just as much faith in science as their is in religion.

[LexBaird]

“Science works by first making definitive recommendations, and then doing several years of research to discover if we were right,” said an unnamed NIH spokesman. “During the research phase, our job is to vigorously promote our assumptions until the facts disprove them.”

I know this is satire, but this is a pretty close description of how the "Scientists in the Public Interest" group actually operates.

[RockinRight]

How about a No-Food diet?

[LexBaird]

I've not heard of it and unlikely will after this post.

Scrappleface is a satire site, often linked to on FR. It's humor, okay?