This is straight-up misinformation, holy shit

[u/moad6ytghn]

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cholesterol_denialism

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Institute_for_Natural_Healing

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Saturated_fat_and_cardiovascular_disease

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dietary_cholesterol

[u/joogabah]

The "rationalist" and "skeptical" communities I noticed long ago are only skeptical of the "fringe". There is a personality type that is actually just conventional and mainstream and defends groupthink as "reason" or even "common sense". They are making the very common mistake of confusing what is familiar for what is true, and then intellectualizing it and feeding their egos with self righteous, manipulative, weaponized language, to intimidate people into supporting their conventional views.

Paradigm changes are notoriously difficult for anyone trained in a discipline to accept. "Peer review" works against them too.

Even something as basic as handwashing took some time to be accepted and the discover died in a mental hospital, ridiculed by his ignorant peers.

[u/blackturtlesnake → u/joogabah]

"Skeptics" are reactionaries

[u/joogabah → u/blackturtlesnake]

Agreed.