Who knew? It's practically an article of faith among the health-conscious that you have to drink 8 glasses of water per day or dire consequences will ensue. Eh, not so much.
Scientists say there is no evidence drinking large amounts of water is beneficial for the average healthy person, and do not even know how this widely held belief came about.Okay, I call BS. It "came about" because you "scientists" made such a to-do about it.
I wish I could say that it's the first time science was so wrong about an issue of health..........but it's DEFINITELY not. You'll recall that when we were young eggs were considered essential for health. Then, in the mid 80's, "science" announced that eggs were deadly. Worst...food...EVER!
Then, about 15 years later......."science" sort of said, "Uh, never mind what we said before about eggs...there isn't any health danger." But for 15 years health-conscious people lost out on the beneficial high-protein goodness of eggs, because "they're bad for you" -- "science" says so.
The thing is, common sense would tell you that generation after generation of healthy people who ate eggs daily surely must mean that something was wrong with the original hypothesis. But that's not how science works. What "science" does best, in fact, is issue "where did you ever get THAT idea?" non-disclaimers."One of the problems is that strong recommendations have often been made on very weak data. It may have been the best guess at the moment, but often the recommendations are repeated so many times that people forget they were rough guesses in the first place and come to think they are hard facts."The best guess?!?!? The best $&*%&# GUESS?!?!?!?! You nearly ruined the egg industry, and you deprived millions of the health benefits of eggs......based on a GUESS?!?!?!?!??!
Dr. Walter Willett, 2000
Harvard School of Public Health
But they're dead-on when they talk about Global Warming, right?
