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Re:A researcher's response to people pointing out 150 errors... by theparanoid on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @12:06AM (#13973980)
Some areas of science are mostly quackery. Nutrition for one. Some areas are resistant to quackery like physics and chemistry. And most are a mix like medicine.

In school we're taught that every field is as self correcting as physics. Reality seems to be different.

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Re:A researcher's response to people pointing out 150 errors... by fao_ on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @08:17AM (#13975906)
> Nutrition for one.

"Nutrition" isn't an area of science. Dietetics is, and is a very firm and established field. A lot of the false claims and bad dietary advice come from Nutritionists, which (in the UK at least) isn't a protected term. Anyone can claim to be a Nutritionist, and Nutritionists aren't known for rigourous data.

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