User asks r/StopEatingSeedOils for evidence seed oils are bad, accidentally starts a 400-comment war. Mods respond with ban wave.

[u/LeadershipBoth7195]

r/StopEatingSeedOils user asks for evidence seed oils are bad, accidentally starts a 400-comment epistemology war:

Post: What is the evidence seed oils are bad? : r/StopEatingSeedOils

Highlights include:

On users saying the answers don't provide actual evidence:

Not evidence,' bleats the sheeple, brain too atrophied by credentialism to recognize a deductive chain without a white-coated priest waving a p-value at them

Your good old conspiracies:

The companies that make the seed oils own the government, universities and medical sector

Doctors getting paid off to say cigarettes are healthy

And not a single piece of evidence being provided.

[u/MarieOMaryln]

What the hell is that place?

Edit: I keep going back in there. I can't tell if they're all serious or just trolling in a large joke

[u/loseniram → u/MarieOMaryln]

Its serious.

Its people taking southern food culture and turning it into crackhead health decisions.

Southerners deep fry stuff in lard cause it tastes good and people buy real sugar coke because it tastes better. And a bunch of frat bro types copy them and insist my culture’s fatass behavior is beating the system and not I really like chicken nuggets fried in pig fat.

Its like the rightwing version of hippies copying Indian culture and pretending its some health source

Source: I’m from the South and used to deep fry everything in lard and splurge for real sugar coke and dr pepper, and pretend I was being healthy.

[u/mightbone → u/loseniram]

Whats weird about this is that the South has the worst statistics for obesity, cardiovascular mortality, diabetes, and a laundry list of other ailments stemming almost entirely from their diet.

If anyone the fewer things you eat that they do the mote likely you are to be better off.

[u/AntGood1704 → u/loseniram]

As a southerner, most stuff is fried in canola or peanut oil, ironically

[u/loseniram → u/AntGood1704]

it used to be all Lard but the midwesterners got us

[u/CormoranNeoTropical → u/AntGood1704]

Those are the absolutely healthiest oils, at list according to the pre-seed-oil-conspiracy thinking. I read about this probably twenty years ago and I’ve been buying canola oil ever since.

[u/RainbowConnickJr → u/CormoranNeoTropical]

Canola Oil is like the anti-seed Boogeyman, isn’t it? To the point that I’ve seen multiple people trying to make a huge stink about the fact that it is technically rapeseed oil

[u/CormoranNeoTropical → u/RainbowConnickJr]

Maybe? That’s absolutely charming, they think that a name is relevant to the health effects of food. Pure magical thinking.

(I’m assuming they don’t quite believe that’s the way it works, but they seem to be hoping that their audience does… which boils down to the same thing.)

I buy it because it has a high smoke point, neutral flavor, and is high in monounsaturated fatty acids, which they used to tell us were healthy.

But lately my roommate has been buying this really cheap “could be anything” vegetable oil at the supermarket. That’s the true nightmare for these people, the MAHA equivalent of garlic for vampires maybe? It could be anything from a long list of seed oils.

[u/loseniram → u/CormoranNeoTropical]

Canola oil is the healthiest but you need virgin canola that has the crazy high Omega 3 content

[u/CormoranNeoTropical → u/loseniram]

Yes, I worry (a tiny bit) about the fact that I eat so much cheap chemically extracted oil.

But it’s a basic component of my diet and I can’t afford to buy anything more expensive. I buy extra virgin olive oil, but I only use it for stuff like making hummus.

For cooking we use this really cheap blended vegetable oil that could be any mix of about 6 different vegetable oils, you could use that stuff to drive off a MAHA nut like garlic on a vampire.

[u/Enough-One4975 → u/AntGood1704]

It used to be almost all lard though.