{"id":313,"date":"2005-02-22T09:06:49","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T07:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=313"},"modified":"2005-02-22T09:06:49","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T07:06:49","slug":"unethical-vegan-parents-and-the-art-of-headline-skimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Unethical vegan parents and the art of headline skimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The label pseudo-science is an interesting one, so often used by the mainstream to discredit new findings, or directions of exploration. What it really should be used for is to label all those researchers paid by a vested interest to suppress a finding they&#8217;re unhappy with. Or just plain bad research methodologies. I&#8217;m applying it today to the &#8216;scientist&#8217; who found that veganism\/vegetarianism damages health, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/food\/Story\/0,2763,1419386,00.html\">called parents who subject their children to it unethical<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He got this conclusion by noticing that under-nourished Kenyan children who were fed meat got healhier. Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I worry about those who skim headlines and &#8216;get a feel for what&#8217;s happening&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 14h20: There&#8217;s another version of the same story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&amp;click_id=31&amp;art_id=vn20050222071527174C941418&amp;newslett=1&amp;em=9792a6a20050222ah\">on IOL<\/a>. The researcher&#8217;s thoughts are better presented, but the opposing outcry is neatly ignored. Now, not even reading the article helps, unless the reader cares to engage their critical faculties and spot the logical chasm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The label pseudo-science is an interesting one, so often used by the mainstream to discredit new findings, or directions of exploration. What it really should be used for is to label all those researchers paid by a vested interest to suppress a finding they&#8217;re unhappy with. Or just plain bad research methodologies. I&#8217;m applying it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=313\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unethical vegan parents and the art of headline skimming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-social","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}