On June 27 2013 17:43 Cynry wrote:
I think you guys are assuming Komei stands on a position when he actually isn't. All I read is him saying that science hasn't quite figured out how nutrition works because it is a very complex matter, and that it is safe to assume that the health organisations may know better than you what they are talking about.
Reminds me of the head chair of the academy of medicine (I know, authority bla bla bla) saying that medicine isn't an exact science still.
Komei, although he likes to bash on the ruling god of the H&F forum a bit too much, seems more like a true skeptic than a vegan nut to me.
I think you guys are assuming Komei stands on a position when he actually isn't. All I read is him saying that science hasn't quite figured out how nutrition works because it is a very complex matter, and that it is safe to assume that the health organisations may know better than you what they are talking about.
Reminds me of the head chair of the academy of medicine (I know, authority bla bla bla) saying that medicine isn't an exact science still.
Komei, although he likes to bash on the ruling god of the H&F forum a bit too much, seems more like a true skeptic than a vegan nut to me.
i get the opposite vibes from him. he started off by saying that eating any form of meat is bad (aka vegan) and that any other diet is immoral and suboptimal (aka nut). he only switched to the "nutrition is too complex for us to understand" viewpoint after getting studybombed.
if he truly believed that nutrition is too complex to understand, his stance would be much less absolute. instead of saying "vegan is the only way," one might say "since nutrition is so complex and we don't have a firm grasp of it, why don't we examine the claims of different health organizations and various studies, draw some logical conclusions based on the information we have, and try out the diets that make sense for ourselves and see how my body responds to each."