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Swapping Butter For Plant-Based Oil Reduces Risk Of Premature Death, Says New Study (plantbasednews.org)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What the study (well, the abstract) actually says:

The relationship between butter and plant-based oil intakes and mortality remains unclear, with conflicting results from previous studies.

I'm all for more people switching over, I'm just pointing out this is typical science-filtered-through-journalism and not the hmm-interesting-we-should-look-further-into-this that I'm getting from the source.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vegan circles are full of bad science (and worse, pseudo science) and it makes us look really bad. We're so quick to accept any validating claims of veganism with literally no fact checking. Please for the love of seitan, don't take random articles at face value, dig a little deeper!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

And I'll recommend that people read Bad Science by Ben Goldacre.

I'm not vegan, but awful science reporting is by no means limited to vegan circles. It's practically the default.