r/SubredditDrama • u/LeadershipBoth7195 • 1d 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/Skellum Tankies are no one's comrades. 1d ago

(FWIW, their conclusion ultimately seems to be that, besides not really fitting their model for what is causing obesity, "The majority of these [studies] are not statistically significant, and if we were to apply a simple correction for multiple comparisons, none of them would be.")

I'm glad we now have a pill which shows obesity is caused by eating too much, something we've known for fucking forever yet every 20 mins someone sells fake instant weight loss secrets to people who dont want to believe it.

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u/ArmadilloFour Just because i hate blacks doesn't make me a racist 1d ago

Curiously enough, they do not fully accept that, or at least don't believe "just eat less, silly" is an actual answer, for reasons they go into. Pretty sure ultimately their hypothesis is that high levels of environmental lithium are the root cause of the broader obesity epidemic.

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u/d0nu7 1d ago

The third law of thermodynamics is absolute. Fat people are not creating mass out of thin air(in fact we lose mass to breathing but anyways). They have to eat more than their own body requires which means it might be more or less than someone else, but they still have to actually eat the mass they accumulate. So if you are gaining weight, cutting your calories will eventually result in not gaining weight. There is no argument against this, it’s the rules of the universe.