Dr. David Allison
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first heard Mar 2026
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So there's many different varieties of this sort of pseudo-knowledge or false knowledge or presumed knowledge.
And they range from things that are grandfathered down very innocently.
You know, most people don't sort of, you know, have some stake in water that they're trying to promote.
It's just been handed down and it sounded good and nobody stopped to question it.
And that's one.
And then there are others where people have these very passionate beliefs and it comes from this sort of moral system or their group identity or their tribal identity or their need, their
their need for psychological or social superiority or their economic interests.
You know, there's so many interests that drive people, I think, to push an agenda, sometimes knowingly, sometimes not knowingly, that either goes beyond what we know or in some cases is just simply false.
Mm-hmm.
And I think there's a great deal of that.
And I think it tends to work better in, or not work better, people tend to get away with it more, tends to propagate more in fields like nutrition because it's about food.
It's about everyday experience.
And many people think they're experts, feel like they're experts because they have everyday experience with food.
Most of us eat every day.
Most of us have eaten all of our lives.
We've eaten in many circumstances.
And you kind of feel like that makes you an expert.
We all have a body weight.
We almost all know our body weights approximately.
And so it's not uncommon to be in any kind of setting and have somebody who has never studied obesity, who has never studied nutrition, who's never read a paper on any of these topics,
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