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Grass-Fed Beef Is Indeed Better, and John Stossel And J. L. Capper Appear To Be Shilling for Eli Lilly and Industrial Agriculture

On the one hand, it’s heartening to see that the movement towards eating real meat has become enough of a threat to the hegemony of agribusiness and industrial meat production for the mainstream media to do a hit piece on it (source: Fox News.) On the other hand, it’s dispiriting to see John Stossel [ . . . ]

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When The Conclusions Don't Match The Data: Even Loren Cordain Whiffs It Sometimes, Because Saturated Fat Is Most Definitely Paleo (Updated)

(Note: This article has been revised, extended, and greatly improved as a result of an error caught by an alert commenter.)

Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st century Loren Cordain, S Boyd Eaton, Anthony Sebastian, Neil Mann, Staffan [ . . . ]

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Efficiency vs. Intelligence = Specialist vs. Generalist, or How Glaciers Might Have Made Us Human

From an email discussion:

> I was attempting to posit that energy efficiency may be an easier rule to widely apply > than intelligence.

Efficiency is a good metric, but it encompasses a lot more than just intelligence. Aphids might be extremely efficient in obtaining food, but that doesn’t mean they are extremely intelligent.

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