Random blue check spouts disinformation about "seed oils" on the internet. Same random blue check runs a company selling "safe" alternatives to seed oils. Yud spreads this huckster's disinformation further. In the process he reveals his autodidactically-obtained expertise in biology:
Are you eating animals, especially non-cows? Pigs and chickens inherit linoleic acid from their feed. (Cows reprocess it more.)
Yes, Yud, because that's how it works. People directly "inherit" organic molecules totally unmetabolized from the animals they eat.
I don't know why Yud is fat, but armchair sciencing probably isn't going to fix it.
Carves reality at the seams.
Oops, anyone know how to stitch reality back together again?
"carving reality at the joints" - does this mean anything?
Only finer-grained concepts like "linoleic acid" are useful for carving reality at the joints.
His metaphors mix worse than seed oil and water.
This systematic review and meta-analysis doesn't seem to indicate that linoleic acid is unusually bad for all-cause mortality or cardiovascular disease events. And is there another meta-analysis showing the opposite? I kinda just don't trust those anymore, unless somebody I trust vouches for the meta-analysis
"I only trust meta-analyses if the results agree with me"
Poor Yud's Bayes must have broken.
