Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Scientific concensus

Just read an interesting NYT article about the origina of the "fat is bad" school of thought that has been so prevalent in America until recently.

It is interesting not just because of its subject matter but because of the principles of human behavior it discusses. After reading it it makes you wonder about lots of other "facts". The most obvious example of a similar scientific and popular concensus today is global warming.

More on this later . ..

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