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I suppose so, if you consider some random people's blogs authoritative. I thought this was HN and not Reddit :)

These are blogs written by people who are promoting a high cholesterol diet -- hmm, ever notice that there is lots of money in promoting nutrition advice that confirms to what people are currently already doing?


peer reviewed science being "dismantled" by some dude's blog. LOL


The china study book is just "some dude's book." It is not peer reviewed. Some of the underlying study is, but most of the conclusions expressed in the book are not a product of peer review.


The "China study" referred to in the title is the China Project, a study comparing diet, lifestyle and disease chacteristics in sixty five counties in rural China in the 1970's and 1980's conducted jointly by Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine

T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. has been at the forefront of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Study, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and Project Director of the China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project.

Dr. Campbell received his master’s degree and Ph.D. from Cornell, and served as a Research Associate at MIT. He spent 10 years on the faculty of Virginia Tech’s Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition before returning to the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell in 1975 where he presently holds his Endowed Chair (now Emeritus).


This china study 'dude' is a well respected scientist. That blog author is not.


Did you miss the part where he blatantly misrepresents research? The writer irrelevant. Utter your soothing "well respected scientist" mantra all you want. You can look at the abstracts yourself that show campbell's misrepresentations.


care to give an example?


Yes I did. Campbell did not misrepresent anything; abstracts are highly condensed summations written by someone else who may or may not have the background necessary to fully convey the underlying research.

Poorly written abstracts are the leading cause of sensationalist headlines.




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