Half of this is just bernays consumerist theory, as long as a position of authority makes a claim it can be sold as fact. We’ve seen this for a century in nutrition studies, where a meta analysis was hidden because, surprisingly they found the majority of studies were either fraudulent or never actually passed a reproduction. To assume any other scientific field is different is redundant. The only true measure for modern science is how reliant our livelihoods are on the accuracy of the practice, which even then has become consumerized.
Self-reporting food intake is when people fabricate a list of what they vaguely recall eating, while omitting things that "didn't count" and adding things they "should have been eating and totally will so let me write it down anyway".
Nutritionists themselves cannot be trusted to acurately self-report their diet.
Even when you tell people in a study their food intake is monitored independently, so they should report acurately what they eat, they still write total bullshit and/or lie.
It is very, very well established that self-reporting is not remotely reliable and no conclusion can be drawn from it. But researchers keep using self-reporting because "it's more convinient", but a step beyond useless. It's misinformation. And they still draw "conclusioms" from those studies.
Half of this is just bernays consumerist theory, as long as a position of authority makes a claim it can be sold as fact. We’ve seen this for a century in nutrition studies, where a meta analysis was hidden because, surprisingly they found the majority of studies were either fraudulent or never actually passed a reproduction. To assume any other scientific field is different is redundant. The only true measure for modern science is how reliant our livelihoods are on the accuracy of the practice, which even then has become consumerized.
Most nutrition studies rely on self-reporting.
Self-reporting food intake is when people fabricate a list of what they vaguely recall eating, while omitting things that "didn't count" and adding things they "should have been eating and totally will so let me write it down anyway".
Nutritionists themselves cannot be trusted to acurately self-report their diet.
Even when you tell people in a study their food intake is monitored independently, so they should report acurately what they eat, they still write total bullshit and/or lie.
It is very, very well established that self-reporting is not remotely reliable and no conclusion can be drawn from it. But researchers keep using self-reporting because "it's more convinient", but a step beyond useless. It's misinformation. And they still draw "conclusioms" from those studies.