(November 17, 2018 at 11:16 am)Everena Wrote:(November 17, 2018 at 11:05 am)Mathilda Wrote: Wrong. Not only do you not understand evolution but you do not understand how science works.
Our understanding has become more refined over time. For example we now know that there is both good and bad cholesterol. We know that there are different types of fats. Some we need (Omega 3 and omega 6). Some we should minimise (saturated fats). And some we need but get too much of in the western diet (e.g. Omega 6).
Scientists don't talk with one voice as a collective. Science is self correcting and that requires dissenting voices. Eventually this leads to refined theories that can't be dissented against because there is too much evidence for it, such as with the theory of evolution.
Are you claiming they weren't telling everyone to lower their overall cholesterol in the 80s and 90s? And this was all over the world for decades due to science being absolutely sure it was fact. What we know now, is NOT what we knew then. The scientist who published the first huge world wide study purposely left out huge amounts of information to prove his hypothesis. The other scientists took his word for it and just made a quick buck by saying they had the same results. And people's lives were at stake. And guess how much they cared? You can read about this on the web. And you think I should just blindly trust the "experts"? Well I don't and you shouldn't either but it's your life.
The problem with this is as follows. In as much as your comments reflect skepticism and agnosticism regarding the truth, you are fine. Insofar as you are making claims that can be supported, defeated, rendered meaningless, or otherwise mooted, your arguments are subject to the same criticisms that one can level against any hypothesis, and specifically scientific hypotheses. Insofar as you seem to my eye to apply differing standards to the two, you are guilty of special pleading, and your conclusions on that account are therefore not reliable nor necessarily true.
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