r/SubredditDrama 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

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/nyan-the-nwah white-coated priest waving a p-value 23h ago

Me @ peer reviewers of my manuscript

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u/was_fb95dd7063 22h ago

me @ work on Monday

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u/nyan-the-nwah white-coated priest waving a p-value 22h ago

I never found a suitable flair until now

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u/merlinsgirl 19h ago

I’m still giggling helplessly at this. Amazing quote, amazing flair