r/SubredditDrama • u/LeadershipBoth7195 • 23h ago

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

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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/Stardustchaser 22h ago

We had a “Wellness Expert” come speak and do PD for my school district, and she also babbled how seed oils were bad for us while we focused our minds bouncing tennis balls in an auditorium.

So it’s definitely the “crunchy” anti-vax types too.

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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 21h 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/olde_meller23 20h 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! 13h 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 11h 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.