Hi James, really enjoyed this article which succinctly affirmed my own beliefs on objectivity and receptivity to learning, thank you. I stumbled across this article after reading your answers to some questions in Linkedin. You mentioned some criticism of Tim spector who I agree with you, has done some important work. However, I also found some of his comments on DOAC to be contradictory and unjustfiably dismissive of others due to a self-promotional perspective which I found almost discrediting and disappointing. Like you said, discerning the truth is a challenge and requires an open mind. I may have misunderstood your Linkedin comment but did you actually write an article about his comments about vitamins and if so, which one was it, please? BTW, as a fellow Hueligan, I love everything about Huel as a product and the company's ethos, keep up the good work. Create a good day, Nick :)
Hey Nick, glad you liked the article. You might like 'Bayesian Nutrition' too as it kinda follows on from this one.
I've not written an article on his comments about vitamins, but in my article 'Unprocessing the Ultra-Processed Mindset', although I don't name him, I tackle his position on UPF.
That was such a well written article. I have been studying psychology and how the brain works and like you said someone who is fixed on his views (Fixed mindset) might not even complete any article that somehow differ from their views but keeping a growth mindset and actually questioning whether what we are told is actually true and has strong evidence or is it just someone made up opinion based on their experience/biases/motivations is what is slowly going to bring more people to the actual truth. Whether it is the news or social media, we need to make sure that what we believe and see has strong evidence to back it up or really we just become "puppets" with a brain we might as well throw in the bin! I love how you properly explained the different enlightment values such as intellectual rigor, reason and rationality and gave the tools to dissect what we see on social media about nutrition.
Thank you so much for this post; I found it extremely useful and learnt a lot! It was really helpful for me to understand the differences and nuances between reason, rationality, logic, intellectual rigour, compassion and intellectual honesty; thank you for explaining these concepts so clearly.
I found it particularly helpful to reflect upon the line, "There can be a degree of subjectivity when being objective, and this makes differences of opinion useful" as someone who is studying nutrition science at university, where I am sometimes exposed to differing opinions regarding certain concepts from various professionals.
Hi James, really enjoyed this article which succinctly affirmed my own beliefs on objectivity and receptivity to learning, thank you. I stumbled across this article after reading your answers to some questions in Linkedin. You mentioned some criticism of Tim spector who I agree with you, has done some important work. However, I also found some of his comments on DOAC to be contradictory and unjustfiably dismissive of others due to a self-promotional perspective which I found almost discrediting and disappointing. Like you said, discerning the truth is a challenge and requires an open mind. I may have misunderstood your Linkedin comment but did you actually write an article about his comments about vitamins and if so, which one was it, please? BTW, as a fellow Hueligan, I love everything about Huel as a product and the company's ethos, keep up the good work. Create a good day, Nick :)
Hey Nick, glad you liked the article. You might like 'Bayesian Nutrition' too as it kinda follows on from this one.
I've not written an article on his comments about vitamins, but in my article 'Unprocessing the Ultra-Processed Mindset', although I don't name him, I tackle his position on UPF.
Thanks!
Thanks James, I'll take a look.
That was such a well written article. I have been studying psychology and how the brain works and like you said someone who is fixed on his views (Fixed mindset) might not even complete any article that somehow differ from their views but keeping a growth mindset and actually questioning whether what we are told is actually true and has strong evidence or is it just someone made up opinion based on their experience/biases/motivations is what is slowly going to bring more people to the actual truth. Whether it is the news or social media, we need to make sure that what we believe and see has strong evidence to back it up or really we just become "puppets" with a brain we might as well throw in the bin! I love how you properly explained the different enlightment values such as intellectual rigor, reason and rationality and gave the tools to dissect what we see on social media about nutrition.
Thanks, Nasia. Glad you found it interesting.
Thank you so much for this post; I found it extremely useful and learnt a lot! It was really helpful for me to understand the differences and nuances between reason, rationality, logic, intellectual rigour, compassion and intellectual honesty; thank you for explaining these concepts so clearly.
I found it particularly helpful to reflect upon the line, "There can be a degree of subjectivity when being objective, and this makes differences of opinion useful" as someone who is studying nutrition science at university, where I am sometimes exposed to differing opinions regarding certain concepts from various professionals.
Thank you! and glad you fouind it useful. You may also like my article 'How "Hard" Is Nutrition?' as it's s similar theme. https://jamescollier.substack.com/p/how-hard-is-nutrition