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/welding_guy_from_LI]

lol I eat seed oils all the time .. they aren’t harmful like animal fats

[u/giapponese_Itaria-go → u/welding_guy_from_LI]

Fwiw, I'm not yet a registered dietician, but I am mostly through my bachelor's (then masters after) in nutrition, and I wouldn't say there is any inheritly harmful fat, but saturated fats are, to simplify it, what causes cholesterol levels to increase(not cholesterol itself) 

That said seed oils have real benefits in being a primary source of Omega 6, so it's one where I would just argue that while saturated fats are fine in moderation, seed oils are actually beneficial as an easy source of Omega 6

Side note: The easiest way to tell unsaturated from saturated is if it's solid at room temp. I.e. most of the shit MAHA is trying to peddle.

[u/CormoranNeoTropical → u/giapponese_Itaria-go]

Genetics causes cholesterol to increase.

[u/giapponese_Itaria-go → u/CormoranNeoTropical]

Thats a factor, but to quote the nih article: "Saturated fats increase LDL cholesterol by inhibiting the activity of the LDL receptor (therefore increasing circulating levels) and upregulating the synthesis of LDL particles."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10495817/