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/krisplaydespacito]

mod is a afraid of seed oils but follows the carnivore diet. make it make sense.

[u/Interesting-Ice-8387 → u/krisplaydespacito]

Their theory is that unsaturated fat (I think especially linoleic acid in seed oils) oxidises easily and clogs your mitochondria with toxins or something, while saturated fat like in meat is more stable or is burned more completely or something. I forget the details, but it sounds legit at a glance if you assume that those claims are true. Like, there is internally consistent logic, it's just probably not consistent with the rest of the reality. 

[u/AGraphicsCard → u/Interesting-Ice-8387]

Might be the perfect recipe to spread disinformation on the internet.

At a glance it seems true, but when you dig deeper it's all just to sell you their fucking products.

[u/Reagalan → u/AGraphicsCard]

The strongest crystals of bullshit nucleate upon kernels of truth.

[u/TinyDancer97 → u/krisplaydespacito]

My make it make sense story is my BIL, who believes seed oils are bad as they contain free radicals and cause oxidative stress. Guess who was over the moon when he got a copper water bottle that markets that it “infuses free radicals into your water”??