So maybe the huge worry people had after the news that WHO would classify it as cancerous was a little too much. I think the media could have reported on it in a bit more responsible way.
The constant stupidity around food makes science look really really bad and I bet it’s the biggest contributor to people not trusting doctors and climate scientists. Personally I’ve become something like an antivaxer but with food. If people have been eating it for hundreds of years I trust it regardless of what studies say, and if it’s newfangled processed food I don’t trust it, also ignoring any study. I can easily see why some people wouldn’t differentiate between these alarmist food studies and the much more legitimate areas of science. It’s wrong but I understand exactly where they’re coming from.
Plus the reporting on it.
At a certain point, people start saying things like “X is supposed to be bad now, but give it 5 years and it’ll probably be healthy again!” or “they say you’re not supposed to do Y anymore…”.
Because, of course, most people get their information from news sources who are always trying to find the next superfood or poison that we’ve all been consuming for hundreds of years. And often, many of the things were taught when we’re younger are no longer considered correct, or at least fully correct, anymore.
So at a point people just get tired, ignore all of it, and just do whatever they were going to do anyway, because from their perspective, scientists can’t make their mind up anyway.
