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The scientists are from Nigeria, one of the largest producers of palm oil, so it could be in their nationalistic interest to dismiss palm oil health concerns to promote their international exports.

That’s a valid point, but it could be that they’re looking at the global reaction to something they’ve consumed locally for thousands of years with consternation and wanted to investigate it.

I'll stick with doing what the mainstream tells me until and unless the mainstream changes.

That feels like it might have sounded different in your head or I’m not understanding what you mean. There have been many examples of an incredibly unhealthy thing being very mainstream (lead, more than once, but also arsenic, radium, and mercury, for some of the most egregious examples, but pharmaceutical history is also full of this), so I don’t know why you would want to default to the mainstream on this if that’s what you did mean.

whether palm olein is a better substitute for soybean oil is a separate question from whether the solid palm oil is a better substitute for butter, which the Nigerian paper just lumps all in the same category

This is also a fair criticism, and I wish there were more research.

To be fair, it was more like:

Poster: this has been forced on us, which is unfair (in a community for complaints)

You: check your privilege, some people have language barriers

Other commenters: this is how I get around language barriers/what language barriers do you encounter?

You: let’s not be Reddit

on sick em rex · c/mop · 19 pts · 245d

Very young children like fairness (so young that this is observed rather than gleaned from interviews), so I wouldn’t be surprised if the same preference for fairness was present in other intelligent social animals

on Kid talks · c/lotrmemes · 15 pts · 1y

There's a common misconception that trauma is the main cause of childhood amnesia. A logical assumption but is completely unfounded.

Fun quote from that article, you absolute scholar

I’m not the other person, but that’s obviously not helpful and simply makes you look immature. Either explain where you think someone’s gone wrong or leave out the “hope that helps.” Or don’t, and everyone reading is reminded of that scene from the big Lebowski

exCUSE me? I explained how 9000 lumens into the eyeball is the ideal lighting and if you disagree, you’re just fooling yourself. It’s not my fault that my superior knowledge about the inefficiency of other lighting is seen as close minded.

Not really. It’s people who enjoy art of personified/anthropomorphized animals. Sometimes it’s sexual, sometimes it involves personas and costumes, sometimes it’s just rabbits in bankers’ outfits. It’s viewed as weird by a lot of people because they assume it’s all costumes and sex, but looney tunes technically also counts, so it’s much more widespread than people identifying with it is.