Holy Crap, a million times THIS.
I used to read the MFP forums. I can’t do it anymore between the “What would you do to the person above you?” posts (Apparent General MFP Answer: “Insult their diet and tell them their cited experts are all frauds, of course.”) I got to the point where I really don’t give a crap about whether they believe what I believe.
…and to juxtapose, J_A-M seems to be showcasing another situation that seems to crop up on a lot of eating lifestyle forums, be it MFP, reddit’s r/keto or any other: once something has been touted enough times as fact, it becomes religious dogma.
I never understood why people would try to drown out a completely reasonable position when the dogmatic one sounds so darned unlikely. But entire wars have started throughout human history over the idea of God’s existence, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that someone might think that grass-fed beef is a method to pull back sagging skin, even if the idea seems ridiculous on its face.
Add in the words “Trust me on this”, and you have all the workings of a snake-oil salesman, something we life-long yo-yo dieters have seen at many points in our lifetimes.I’m not saying atomicspacebunny is trying to fleece anyone, just that she’s doing things that humans are wont to do when they’re convinced of something.
I mean, hey, the idea that a cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically drink his blood and eat his flesh, telepathically tell him that he is your master so he can counter an evil force in your soul present in all of humanity because a rib-woman listened to a talking snake and was subsequently convinced to eat the fruit from a magical tree.
It seems ridiculous on its face, but it’s the accepted dogma of hundreds of millions of people.