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If it follows the scientific method, I would consider citing any paper. Conversely, I would be reluctant to cite even a peer-reviewed and published paper that relies upon hearsay, is opaque regarding its experimental methods and calculations, or draws illogical conclusions from its results.

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sometimes very smart and reasonable people fall in with the wrong ideas. One current effort to overcome skepticism regarding institutional sources of information about the vaccines involves encouraging people who are trusted within a community to advocate directly to those who trust them. With this...

With my moderator's cap on, I want to commend the contributors here for avoiding a total meltdown. This is a difficult topic that in most venues devolves into acrimony and chaos. That said, I do have concern with respect to this clause of our Community Guidelines : Respect . All posts and private me...

Regarding dairy, I eat lots of full fat yogurt, cheese, and butter and feel well. I am not alone here. I think true consensus regarding diet among our members is narrow, but I don't recall seeing disagreement with these two: - Avoid highly processed foods containing industrial seed oils and other re...

Awesome list, Theresa - much food for thought here!

And on the off chance that you are somehow maintaining a ripped physique despite subpar food quality, I would encourage you to avoid highly processed foods. Keeping it simple, you can do that by avoiding anything containing industrial seed oils - soy, corn, canola, sunflower, safflower, cottonseed,...

Ancestry's reporting is questionable - here's a prior post explaining the issue.