Jessica Knurick

Yeah, so I made a video about how it's just, you know, there's a couple types of pasteurizing, but the most common one is heating milk to about 165 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 seconds and then rapidly cooling it.

And that's it.

Yeah, and it kills pathogens, and it makes your milk safer.

And it doesn't meaningfully change the nutritional content of the milk.

And so I think when people learned this, some people were more accepting of pasteurization.

So again, knowledge is power, right?

Sure.

True dat.

Yeah, I mean, this is kind of a larger issue of what we're seeing right now in terms of, like, attacks on public health interventions that we know have worked.

And we forget the years before the public health interventions were implemented.

It's a victim of its own success.

Just like vaccines, just like food fortification, just like pasteurization.

I think a lot of people arrive confused because they hear one person saying one thing, another person saying another thing.

Yeah, which makes it more insidious and more dangerous because then they have that perceived authority.

And so what I've tried to do and what I've realized is a lot of people don't know what scientific consensus means.

And so trying to explain the difference between just me telling you, don't listen to me because I'm telling you and I have a PhD.

Yeah.

I'm going to give you information and then you go look if that's actually accurate.

And I'll give you the places to go look and understanding what scientific consensus is.

So in nutrition, especially because nutrition science is like a baby science.