ChristianKl comments on Critiquing Gary Taubes, Part 3: Did the US Government Give Us Absurd Advice About Sugar? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 29 December 2013 01:13:19AM 3 points [-]

I'll start with the obvious: We thought sugary soft drinks were intrinsically healthy?

That not a claim that Taubes makes in the paragraph that you cite. His claim is less strong.

Plenty of people in the real world do believe that Bionade is healthy. Bionade is a soft drink. Taubes doesn't claim that all soft drinks are considered healthy.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 December 2013 11:25:22AM -1 points [-]

Plenty of people in the real world do believe that Bionade is healthy.

Oh God. Every day Idiocracy looks more and more like the real world to me.