Maybe it should just stop giving it.
To paraphrase Inigo Montoya: It killed my father. It should prepare to die.
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Maybe it should just stop giving it.
To paraphrase Inigo Montoya: It killed my father. It should prepare to die.
Comments are closed.
The food pyramid is a great example of how politics gets in the way of everything government does. The “nutritional recommendations” – which get implemented in things like school lunch programs – are bought and paid for by lobbyists.
Much of science -notably medicine- is bedeviled by what I call the “streetlamp fallacy” (there may be a more traditional philosophical term). You know, a guy is bent over, wandering around under the light. Another guy comes over, asks him what’s up. “I lost my keys over there” -pointing into the darkness. Why are you looking here? “The light’s better.”
In other words, they base decisions on what can be measured, and ignore what can’t, even if the measurements are trivial or irrelevant. You could also call it a kind of tunnel-vision.