Getting calls from TV bods asking for an expert to explain why food is less nutritious today, why traditional diets are healthier, etc.
They inevitably don’t like it when I tell them they are wrong.
If only TV crafted its narrative around experts, not the other way round.
They inevitably don’t like it when I tell them they are wrong.
If only TV crafted its narrative around experts, not the other way round.
Recently, I was asked to talk about why Western chefs cooking Asian food was disrespectful ‘cultural appropriation’.
Offer quickly withdrawn when I said ‘It really isn’t’
Offer quickly withdrawn when I said ‘It really isn’t’
I guess this is one of the big problems of today: So much of the public’s understanding of food comes from the media.
Yet popular foodie media often reflects a narrative audiences want to hear more than it does the actual science.
No idea how to go about changing this.
Yet popular foodie media often reflects a narrative audiences want to hear more than it does the actual science.
No idea how to go about changing this.
Of course, this just breeds mistrust in science when what scientists say sounds different from people have heard all their lives.
It makes perfectly standard scientific statements seem controversial or crazy.
And that’s how civilisation is dismantled, chip by chip.
It makes perfectly standard scientific statements seem controversial or crazy.
And that’s how civilisation is dismantled, chip by chip.
