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“Science is not a belief system”
Confirmation Bias
Cognitive Dissonance
Dunning-Kruger Effect

3 biases that impact what we THINK we know

3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview | J. Marshall Shepherd What shapes our perceptions (and misperceptions) about science? In an eye-opening talk, meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd explains how confirmation bias, th...

Nutrition is often a religion and people use anecdote to prove their beliefs.
Classic case of confirmation bias where people believe first and search for only confirmatory evidence that supports their belief and justifies why conflicting evidence is no good.
Good practitioners follow an evidence-based approach and don’t try to sell snake oil. They look at the bulk of the evidence and can evaluate the difference between good and bad science and look at the evidence with an open mind and be willing to change their opinion based on where the evidence leads.

Nutrition is not a belief system. Why wishful thinking won't get you results, but science might. Nutrition is often seen as a belief system. In other words, the answer to “What should I eat?” is often based on faith, magical thinking, emotional attachments, and/or what feels “truthy”, rather than on real evidence or the scientific method. Until we fix this, nutrition will get more confu...