The very first of the "false or unproven" claims they list is "animal protein is healthier than plant-based protein".
And at this level of imprecision, that claim is true!
Animal protein has a good balance of amino acids. Many plant proteins do not. Sure, you can mix various plant proteins to get a good balance. But if you don't know what you're doing - getting all your protein from beans, for instance - you can end up with a deficiency.
Maybe rather than say the problem is "an overabundance of conflicting information", they might want to improve the quality of the information that they push.
Perhaps it’s naive but I really think that teaching critical thinking patterns to young teens can help. Just telling “don’t believe everything you read” can cut both ways.
Because they've fallen down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole to the point of where they only trust things if there's a convoluted explanation behind it.
The very first of the "false or unproven" claims they list is "animal protein is healthier than plant-based protein".
And at this level of imprecision, that claim is true!
Animal protein has a good balance of amino acids. Many plant proteins do not. Sure, you can mix various plant proteins to get a good balance. But if you don't know what you're doing - getting all your protein from beans, for instance - you can end up with a deficiency.
Maybe rather than say the problem is "an overabundance of conflicting information", they might want to improve the quality of the information that they push.
There’s a huge difference between something that is proven false and something that is unproven. Why are these bucketed together?
I don’t know anyone who believes nothing that hasn’t been statistically proven. You can’t operate in real life that way.
Perhaps it’s naive but I really think that teaching critical thinking patterns to young teens can help. Just telling “don’t believe everything you read” can cut both ways.
Because they've fallen down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole to the point of where they only trust things if there's a convoluted explanation behind it.
It is staggering how many people cannot engage critical thought.