• maol@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    This reminds me of that incredibly long series of blog posts by slime mold time mold that claimed that the rise in obesity and associated medical issues in the US was caused by lithium pollution in US waterways and food chains. Their solution to this allergen problem was no, not to demand regulation of lithium mining, no, not to lobby for lithium heavy sites to be given superfund cleanups… But to move to a high altitude state where there would be less lithium in the water supply. Really.

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      1 year ago

      These guys are big into pseudoscientific fad diets ala ray peat. Also they claim canola oil causes sunburn now. Just bizarre.

      (i figure a lot of this is covert status display stuff - class signals etc)

      • Phil@awful.systems
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        1 year ago

        The seed oil / sunburn thing is something I saw going around online just this week. Is there /anything/ behind it at all or is it just another chunk of LessWrong science by anecdata?