173. Naomi Oreskes — Why Trust Science?
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Problem With Dietary Studies
The food industry has of late, been saying we shouldn't pay attention to population studies and like. Why are they saying that? I mean, why wouldn't we want as much information as possible? We do know that people lie too, big things. People lie about sex and what they eat. But you can do population studies. And when you look at populations and you compare the united states states to greece or corea or china, where the diets are different, you see very, very different diseased patterns.
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