Responding to Nina Teicholz

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Hey, guys!

So, I've recently made a video about Nina Teicholz, you can see it here (hopefully):

 https://youtu.be/Lg-IBf5vtgM

For those who don't know, Nina Teicholz is an American journalist who advocates meat-based diets. I think it's important that those people have sane opposition. People who advocate alcohol consumption, keto-vegan diets or meat-based diets have made a whole library of alternative facts which they bombard people ignorant of nutrition with. And my perception is that nutritionists think (rightly or wrongly) that they have better things to do than to debunk those claims, and that's why there is so little opposition to their claims on the Internet. That's very unfortunate.

It's important that we, who advocate the truth, are familiar with the claims made by people such as Nina Teicholz, for about the same reason it's important to be familiar with theology if you are going to advocate atheism. For now, I think very few people actually believe what Nina Teicholz has to say, and we need to work for it to stay that way.

peschu · Answer

Hi FlatAssembler,
I appreciate your efforts to inform people about "alternative" facts and all that stuff. Unfortunately I don't have the time to watch your whole video.

It's really hard to read stuff like this:
https://ninateicholz.com/majority-of-eat-authors-vegan-vegetarian/

She seems quite tricky because she wraps her meat lobby-ism into the low carbs/high protein discussion(which must not be wrong, but must not be used to advertise meat). And additionally she just scatters doubts like the tobacco industry did (successfully) 50 years ago. :-(

Could you perhaps create a shorter version of your video...like a "primer" or "extract".  ;-)

She/They("The Nutrition Coalition") probably have a lot of lawyers and/or money, maybe that could be a reason for the little opposition. 

KR,

Peter

FlatAssembler · Answer

[quote]It's really hard to read stuff like this[/quote]
Damn, it's even more crazy than I expected. "Most of the nutritionists are vegetarian, therefore they are biased to vegetarianism and we shouldn't trust them that vegetarianism is healthy.". Then I guess doctors who vaccinate their children shouldn't be trusted that vaccines don't cause autism.
[quote]Could you perhaps create a shorter version of your video[/quote]
I don't have time for that, I am studying computer science.

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