Kevin comments on New Year's Prediction Thread (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kevin 14 January 2012 11:45:54AM 1 point [-]

Also, more likely than people reading this and going on to make a submission is that people read that, think that, try giving it a shot and then give up in disgust because nutrition is not actually a science, it's just a field where scientists pretend they are doing science. The literature is somewhere between awful and useless. I think Personalized Medicine is going to be disappointed in the results of the contest because it's so hard to make conclusions as evidence backed as would seem likely before digging into the literature.