Bug Milk
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“3 times more nutritious”? scientists say that? 3 times more of what? Calories? Vitamins? It can’t be 3 times more of everything 😄
It's 3x more Good, trust the Science™.
Feels like that "bull milk" joke, but nobody's laughing.
It's tripleplusgood.
I found the paper, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123606/, and it's based on calorie per gram which has to be the dumbest of all possible metrics. By that metric table sugar is 12 times as nutritious as broccoli.
So bug milk is 3x more calorie dense than regular milk. What an idiotic thing to praise. People want less calorie density in their food, not more. This is directly lying to people.
They did mention that it may be more useful for populations that are underfed, but peanut butter already fills that niche pretty well (and by their own dumb metric is 4 times more nutritious than cockroach milk). Really I think they just wanted to do some science on roaches and needed a bullshit application because you can't get a grant these days without something about climate change in the proposal.
Don't give the fuckers any more ideas, please.
Then again, they already said sugary cereal is better for you than eggs or meat, so I suppose we're already there.
Wait, this is real? I thought it was satire. What the fuck
Pick two options, declare one desirable.
Pick some metric (or maybe a group of metrics), declare them desirable.
Find one (or more) of those metrics that is higher in the desirable option. Ignore all other metrics. Declare desirable option to be superior.
Stand back and watch while journalists who never even passed basic algebra spread headlines and articles declaring your desired option to be superior.
Reminds me of a paper that Chris Martinson went over where, according to one metric (some protein in the blood or something), Hydroxychloraquine did nothing. According to other metrics that weren't mentioned in the study's abstract for some mysterious reason (these being
number of days in the hospitalandcontinuing to stay alive), hydroxychloraquine showed a positive effect.If it's so damn good they can drink it.
Feels like the COVID propaganda where you'd see headlines like "Experts say double-masking can lower your risk by 50%". What? 🤔