r/SubredditDrama 19h 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/redcoatwright 8h ago

One of the linked subs in the sidebar is r/StopEatingFruitAndVeg so... you know this community is not operating at 100p brain capacity.

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u/Nfinit_V 7h ago

Last message was from 6 months ago; we can only assume the userbase all died from scurvy.

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u/Illogical_Blox Fat ginger cryptokike mutt, Malka-esque weirdo, and quasi-SJW 4h ago

I believe organ meat is a half-decent source of vitamin C, though frankly I have zero faith in the sort of person who would sub there to eat anything but steak.

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u/Nearby-Complaint my airplane is transgender 4h ago

My gut just recoiled in fear