That stuff proclaimed good for us probably killed a bunch of citizens

Nutritional scientists decided cholesterol was the problem, and the Admiral Farraguts proclaimed: “Damn the evidence! Full speed ahead!”

“The Minnesota investigators had a theory that they believed in — that reducing blood cholesterol would make people healthier. Indeed, the idea was widespread and would soon be adopted by the federal government in the first dietary recommendations. So when the data they collected from the mental patients conflicted with this theory, the scientists may have been reluctant to believe what their experiment had turned up.”

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/04/from-the-annals-of-scientific-objectivity.php

(“(M)ay have been reluctant to believe”? How about “didn’t want to” or “refused to believe” facts that could disprove their theory?

(Do not accept at face value any “Studies show” or “Computer models predict.” Not any.)

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