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High Frutcose Corn Syrup scare as a prelude to quackery.

I didn't just wake up one day and decide to follow quack or CAM, complementary and Alternative Medicine. One major factor for me falling victim to quackery was the HFCS scare and my college. My college level nutritional teacher had us watch a documentary or something on HFCS Nightline or 60 minutes. I plan to re-watch the special news cast some time. Was around 2005-2008 can't remember exactly when I watched the video in class. Anyways, this made me think diet was more important than I thought.  I think this also opened the door to full blown quackery just a crack. By exaggerating the harm of high fructose corn syrup the media did a disservice, probably liberal media.  I also remember my college level nutritional teacher pointing to a libertarian website called consumer freedom and her calling the website awful. I remember reading an article I perceived as inflammatory. As I see it the liberal and conservative media failed in different ways. The liberal by exaggerating t...

Future plans. Scientific based vegan website blog, webcomic, or something.

I doubt these plans will ever come to fruition. You know you've hit it big when you have your own web comic even if nobody reads it. I am fed up with all this health advice especially pertaining to diet. It feels like a bunch of rich white people have nothing better to do than to waste time and money on quackery. I detest quackery. Go to sciencebasedmedicine, quackwatch, or the skepdoc right now if you hate quackery as much as I do. I'm sure these people can explain better than me. Nevertheless, I have personal experience however weak evidence it is, people seem to care about it. Besides the personal experience is backed by science, it is plausible that I am telling the truth. By the way I welcome legitimate, scientific, constructive, and polite criticism. Not "hey you breath stinks and your a insert random swear word here." All the contradictions between diet really bothers me. Sure, there might be a few extremists that promote quack physical fitness. Yet, the ...