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 I am a skeptic and a rebel, but I am not skeptical of mainstream opinion in certain cases.  I hope this can be my final post on this topic. I'm not interested in arguing with people about why I believe what I believe.

The conditions that make a field of research credible to me are:

* There are a large number of people looking into the issue
* Those people are spread across the planet working in many different countries and cultures and languages
* Their funding sources are very diverse
* Their results publishing is very diverse
* They are nearly unanimous in their opinions, with very few dissenters
* There isn't a clear universal strong bias affecting them all
* I have personal experience interacting with some of them to verify much of the above

IMHO these apply to medical/nutrition research and to a lesser degree to climate change. Sure, you can point out sources of bias, or publication filtering, or funding problems, but when a fied is so large with such diversity, and the Chinese are getting the same results, then even large amounts of such corrupting influences won't IMHO tip the whole field into folly. 
 Fellow skeptic and rebel here too🫡, but I'll always have an open mind.  
 This is a reasonable position until you are close enough to see the movement of money within the systems and the widespread incidence of inverted competance hierarchies 
 oh so "they" can corrupt Climate Science and Vaccine Science but not Nutrition Science

it is well known that Atheists accept G-d before death before they are afraid 

likewise a person fearful for their health might accept medical advice 

just don't confuse fear for reasoning 

look Mike if you would rather eat Grains and Seed Oils and avoid Meat - that is your business 

i am here to spread the light of truth, not to try to force anybody to change 

you can accept that i won all the debates and i can accept that you will continue to eat poorly anyway
 
 i never forced my grandmother to change her diet - another person's health is too much responsibility for me to take on - she also believed that grains are healthy because like you she watched YouTube videos - we gave her any food she asked for even as it changed every week based on a new YouTube video she would watch ...

YouTube is truly a cesspool ...

even though @KenDBerryMD is a buffoon i believe he may help establish a nutrition community on NOSTR similar to B1tc0in community we already have and then you would actually be able to learn nutrition on a platform that isn't 100% controlled by the same people who want you to eat bugs ...