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I did not read the book. But I kind of do not feel there is much help in it for me. I only see how people seem to be focused heavily on meat. I really do not get this.

Since plants have so much more evolution behin them and can usually be grown without use of antibiotics. Clearly many plants are grown with heavy use of pesticides and herbicides. But thanks to lables or those with the means to homegrow, can make sure to use very grounded forms of plant farming.

And from most articles I read and documentaries I read, it seems quiet consensus to eat mostly plants with some addition of meat rarely. So I really do not see how a book says to fix health and putting only meat on the cover. Or is this only clickbait nostr:nprofile1qqsyx708d0a8d2qt3ku75avjz8vshvlx0v3q97ygpnz0tllzqegxrtgkklh5m ?

freemymind 🇨🇭 4mo ago

https://medium.com/@willemvandenbergh_85885/the-ir-relevance-of-experts-top-down-versus-bottom-up-information-flow-428bd5005d88

Just found this great article about the #relevance or lack of it from so called #experts in the reddit forum linked below. It seems very obvious nostr:nprofile1qqsyx708d0a8d2qt3ku75avjz8vshvlx0v3q97ygpnz0tllzqegxrtgkklh5m goes directly in this faction of "baseless appeal to authority" for writing books which sole purpose is to sell them. Since for sure there are people with far better knowledge in health and nurtition than a person, which invested his time mostly in questions about economics. So I kind of answered my question above myself. Probably not worth reading for the lack of knowledge to write a book which is useful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/r3avuj/saifedean_is_unsound/?rdt=45299

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FiddleHodlHomestead 4mo ago

Saifedean didn't write the book. I only tagged him because his company published it. The writer is an investigative journalist who studied the various incentives around food policy. The thesis is excellent and the knowledge is solid.

Baseless appeal to authority? what do you mean?

freemymind 🇨🇭 4mo ago

> Baseless appeal to authority? what do you mean?

That I feel Saifedean is kind of abusing his authority in topics he has not enough knowledge to be of importance. So I think many people search very much authority in him, while he is maby authority for economic questions, in most other topics I doubt he is.

FiddleHodlHomestead 4mo ago

Economics touches on every aspect of our lives, and this book is about how printing money has ramifications for the food supply.

Saifedean is not the author, but it totally makes sense that his publishing house would publish this book. It's perfectly in their wheelhouse.

freemymind 🇨🇭 4mo ago

Thanks for your take. Maby I have to look into it to keep on arguing :D

FiddleHodlHomestead 4mo ago

😂 that's the spirit!