When you are told to "trust the science" remember that the science told us that bread and pasta should be the #1 component of our diets. This was taught at schools for decades.

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[–]thefirststone 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Actually, it was always government propaganda.

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Yes, the Keys hypothesis was never anything else than that: a hypothesis. But he was a loudmouth, gathered support among his weak-willed fellows, and already this was politics, and not science anymore.

50 years before him, Weston A. Price observed that worldwide, by far the healthiest people were all carnivores. This was superbly documented and very scientific, but it didn't make profits for Big Agrifood.