I can't understand why otherwise reasonable, educated people fall for homeopathic quackery

[FloridaJudy]

44. The China Study is woo.

I'd rather place my life in the hands of a bunch of people who use careful, peer-reviewed research to pick their mode of therapy over a bunch who cherry-pick their data to support their preconceptions.

Sometimes that latter description fits the pharmaceutical industry as well, but it doesn't apply to the scientific community as a whole. I, for one believe that a diet that includes mainly unrefined, plant-based food is better for one's health than the highly processed crap common to most Western diets, and I suspect any unbiased research would bear that out. But I'd need to see that research before I stated that as proven fact.

The degenerative diseases that kill or cripple most of us now are multi-factorial: cancer, heart disease, dementia, etc. Some of it's due to environment, but a lot of it is genetically determined. Anyone who claims it's just one or the other isn't thinking clearly.