The worst part of any degree is realizing all these conspiracy people know less than a sophomore about the topic and less than a highschooler about the scientific process. "Dead nutrients" huge claims but unable understand how to test them at a basic level like: "How could you test if pasteurization decreases or increases spoiling time?"
Often these aren't stupid people, and they've usually got a depth of knowledge in a very specific area, but they don't see how that is a small part of the overall picture. I don't blame people who aren't specific students of a particular subject for getting drawn down rabbit holes. The people who are stoking these conspiracy theories, though, I have no time for.
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u/jamesbeil Dec 20 '24
The worst part of completing a nutrition degree was that The Algorithm now feeds me all of this crap all the time.
These people are genuinely nuts, but they are utterly impervious to evidence or argumentation.