Just in case you had any confidence in the conventional wisdom WRT nutrition

[jducoeur]

h/t to siderea for the pointer to this beautifully horrifying little article about a visit to a nutritionists' conference. I disagree with Mother Jones' view on a number of issues, but have to agree with the upshot here, that this pretty terrible from a public-information and policy standpoint.

(It's worth reading, but the summary is that a lot of big food companies sponsor the convention, and apparently pack it with very slanted information. Sounds like a very subtle version of regulatory capture, essentially...)

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[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Not all evils come from conspiracies, but conspiracies *do* exist. As Adam Smith said centuries ago "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices…"

[jducoeur]

It's true, but my rule of thumb, based on what I've observed, is that running a conspiracy *well* is fairly hard. In particular, keeping a conspiracy actually secret is difficult. (Maintaining sufficient plausible deniability isn't nearly as hard, of course, which is why writing laws about conspiracy is tricky...)