gwern comments on "All natural food" as an constrained optimisation problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 06 August 2014 04:19:42PM * 1 point [-]

Do ethics boards forbid trials with diet interventions?

They and the general culture of 'ethics' and overrating professional expertise and correlative results forbid trials on the margin.

Or is the problem only that diet researchers do the wrong things and then oversell their results?

I don't see any 'only' about the matter.