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I agree here. It's hard to read this as "Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of other studies. But you should totally trust this one, because the others are Lazy and Shoddy."

In an area where there are huge amounts of lobbyist dollars arguing in the same direction, I'd love more technical reasons about why every other study is flawed and why this burden-of-proof function is meaningful.

I'm not realistically going to read the 25 page PDF in a field I'm not in.



Any study that "slams" decades of research needs to be reproduced or independently reanalyzed (for meta-analysis) before I take it seriously.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.


What if the "extraordinary evidence" that is the foundation of your current dogma is the culmination of several decades of "science" that got corrupted by big money?


Then entire point of science is reproducibility. If it's true, it's reproducible.




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