I try to be polite in my conversations on X, but I make exceptions for doctors, lawyers, politicians & political pundits. they deserve nothing but disdain
@DrSyedHaider Wait, so you’re saying research that is funded by a company with a financial stake in the outcome of the research might be suspect? You don’t say!
@Jonathan_K_Cook My theory is that climate change action has always been more about distraction from all of the other deadly pollutants. We used to be worried about poison in the air, water & soil, now our only fear is carbon dioxide. That’s what we fight about
Nearly half the fat inside a human artery plaque is omega-6 from vegetable oil.
Somebody took the plaques out and weighed what was in them.
A London team pulled them from men who had died of heart disease, then compared each plaque against the fat on that man's own body, which is a decades-long record of what he had been eating.
The omega-6 in the body fat matched the omega-6 in the plaque.
The omega-6 in the blood matched the omega-6 in the plaque.
The saturated fat matched nothing at all.
Three years later the same group counted 668 plaques taken from thirty men dead of ischaemic heart disease.
Omega-6 came to between 44 and 46 per cent of all the fat in them.
Which is what you would expect, because of how a plaque is actually built.
An LDL particle has to oxidise before a macrophage will swallow it. The macrophage becomes a foam cell. The foam cell becomes the plaque. Every cardiologist on earth agrees on that sequence.
Oxidation starts by tearing a hydrogen off a fatty acid, and it can only tear one off a polyunsaturated fat. A saturated molecule offers nothing to grab. A monounsaturated molecule barely does.
So linoleic acid is the ingredient the disease requires. It is the thing that goes rancid, gets eaten, and gets left in the artery wall.
Saturated fat cannot perform that reaction. It has never been chemically capable of it.
The Lancet printed the first paper in 1994, and the authors wrote plainly that the push towards eating more polyunsaturated fat ought to be reconsidered.
Nobody reconsidered anything.
Butter has served thirty years for a crime the frying oil committed, and the evidence was on the slab the whole time.
@AbdulElSayed I looked at the responses on this post to see just how ridiculous the pile on would be. In case anyone was wondering just how insane it would be. Wow good luck!
I know it doesn't seem like it because of the algorithm, but most people who do not agree with you on everything do not disagree with you on everything.
The internet appears to collapse all thought into two diametrically opposed camps: people who either completely agree with you and people who seem to completely disagree with you.
While many of those accounts are not even real people, even if they were, they are still not most people. Social media can impact real life but it is not representative of it. Trends online may be reflective of trends in real life, but the digital world erases the complexity and contradictions that most people embody in real life.
Refusing to fall pray to the cynical and self-defeating doomerism about people is hard in our digital world, but it is necessary for progress and foundational for democracy. Neither are possible unless we maintain our faith in other people's capacity to change.