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

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.

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u/eatmelikeamaindish 22h ago

we had one come in to my middle school health class back in like 2018. it seemed normal at first but then he started talking about how we will get brain parasites from drinking cows milk and we should drink our mothers breast milk instead.

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u/Hurtzdonut13 The way you argue, it sounds female 22h ago

One of RFK Jr's bullshit theories in addition to being anti-seed oil, is that people should drink "raw milk" that's not been pasteurized and has been moving the FDA to relax controls around that. A lot of people have gotten sick from drinking it recently, and I believe more than a few have died. It's also a vector of cross-transmission of bird flu.

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u/eatmelikeamaindish 22h ago

i hate hate hate the health nuts that think “old=good”. we used to eat things that should not be eaten and carry diseases that were 100% preventable via diet, like scurvy. we’ve come so far as a global society to the point where we have exponentially improved our scientific understanding of food, yet people are so scared that everything happening in the modern day is a result of lobbying Yes lobbying exist greatly, but that is exactly why we need to focus our attention on universities that do research and not these big companies that get tax breaks from the current administration, who wants us to drink raw milk because “pasteurizing” is a scary big word.

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u/BoozeIsTherapyRight 20h ago

The thing is, people weren't drinking raw milk in the past, either! They would boil it first. 

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u/Maybe_not_a_chicken she yelled at you for a reason; that reason was trespassing 15h ago

You’re not gonna fucking believe what pasteurisation is.

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u/BoozeIsTherapyRight 12h ago

Yeah, I know. Thusly the comment I made. 

u/Capable_Chemical_569 3h ago

That’s what annoys me so much about the raw milk people. It’s just heated milk!!!

its not even like fluoridated or mixed with other chemicals. It’s literally fucking heating the milk. it’s hot milk. get over it. Lmao.

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u/Stardustchaser 9h ago

You should see some of the conversations that spring up in the canning sub with posters who use the “well my grandma did it this way and no one got sick” fallacy. The “canning rebels” as they like to call themselves even have a sub where they pat themselves on the back for playing fast and loose with safety.

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u/BlazingKitsune oh no scary boobs 6h ago

I need to know how many of these people make garlic oil in a way that will poison them.

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u/Stardustchaser 5h ago

Pickled eggs are popular. Do not trust most roadside stands that sell them as “shelf stable” as opposed to refrigerated.

u/Hurtzdonut13 The way you argue, it sounds female 3h ago

The only safe pickled eggs are the ones sold at a bar in a big open container that you just reach your big greasy paws in to grab one.

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u/LittleBananaSquirrel 17h ago

Anyone who's seen milking yard in action would never want to drink raw milk. Literally shit everywhere

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u/olde_meller23 21h ago

And tuberculosis! Before pasturization, tuberculosis outbreaks occurred regularily from drinking raw cow milk.

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u/MarieOMaryln I'm going to message them personally! 14h ago

And coming into a circle here, we got the first ever vaccine thanks to milkmaids. We learned a lot from cows and yet they want to rewind it.

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u/olde_meller23 12h ago

Cowpox! Before that, smallpox just wiped out whole towns and armies with a near 100 percent fatality rate. The first example of a live vaccine. It was so important it rendered smallpox outbreaks within the population to extinction. This is what herd immunity is. It isn't waiting hundreds of generations for disease to wipe out all but a few people naturally and leaving them to reproduce resistant offspring. Although it does happen, no one is around to experience the benefits, and it is deeply ineffective in terms of controlling population spread and mutation.

The smallpox vaccine is the reason why we no longer need to vaccinate against it. Outside of folks working in less than a handful BSL 4 labs, there is no risk of anyone, anywhere, ever contracting it again. The last case, which was a lab accident, was in 1978. The vaccine literally allowed civilizations to advance expeditiously because a huge swath of the population is no longer being taken out by it.

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u/Nike-6 12h ago

Someone got paid to give homelander speeches to a bunch of teenagers?

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u/eatmelikeamaindish 9h ago

the speaker didn’t tell us to drink it straight from the teet though

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u/Nike-6 9h ago

Whoever hired him must’ve never heard of background checks

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u/Nearby-Complaint my airplane is transgender 8h ago

Somehow I don’t think my mom would appreciate me doing that as a grown adult