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 I'm also not saying that rapeseed oil being put in everything is the source of ALL of our problems, btw. If you base a person's entire position and their thoughts off a single note with a single paragraph then you are bound to develop plenty of assumptions that have little to do with what they actually think.

I'm also perfectly aware there are grey areas, that the list of carcinogens is ridiculous, and that to "avoid everything" is an absurd statement. Very little of anything regarding diet can be considered "conclusive and undeniable" and yet everyone discusses it like it is, while its clearly one of the least reliable sciences and horribly difficult to control for because of the near infinite amount of other factors involved.

Which is why I think basic heuristics and common sense are the most important tools.