Anti Science

MartinNaylor86

Just read one of the blogs and it was one of the most shockingly anti-science pieces of crap I've read in a long time - despite a vaguely credible underlying message. I expected better, I think I'll just stick with the tools.

malibu927

An MFP blog? Yes, avoid those at all costs.

riffraff2112

blogs can be rather interesting, when taken with a grain of salt

sgt1372

I read all the blog posts.

Doesn't' mean I believe everything that I read but I often find something interesting or noteworthy. I've also found and printed a number of recipes that I've tried and liked. So, the blog posts aren't entirely rubbish.

I doesn't take much time to read them and easy to ignore or dismiss them if you don't like what you read.

However, if you only read what you like or agree w/that's only going to lead to a narrow and limited POV, which is the kind of thinking that dominates our politics and is not IMO "a good thing" to do.

stevencloser

I don't read the blog posts, aren't they just made by users?

JustRobby1

Much of the forum content is similar I am afraid. Lots of dubious, new age mumbo jumbo and bro science. There is still some fantastic content and some highly knowledgeable folks, but you have to sift though the muck to find it. I am not sure what it is about the health and fitness industry that brings out the lunatics, but it certainly does.

JeromeBarry1

I tried to blog. It didn't work out. I had the good sense to quit.

JeromeBarry1

sgt1372 wrote: »

I read all the blog posts.

Doesn't' mean I believe everything that I read but I often find something interesting or noteworthy. I've also found and printed a number of recipes that I've tried and liked. So, the blog posts aren't entirely rubbish.

I doesn't take much time to read them and easy to ignore or dismiss them if you don't like what you read.

However, if you only read what you like or agree w/that's only going to lead to a narrow and limited POV, which is the kind of thinking that dominates our politics and is not IMO "a good thing" to do.

It sounds like you're reading all the most highly up-voted blogs, the ones featured on your home page. The un-voted blogs are the great unknown.

try2again

Don't read many blogs, but some of the MFP articles I've come across were terrible

yskaldir

So which blog is it? Don't be such a tease.

stevencloser

JustRobby1 wrote: »

Much of the forum content is similar I am afraid. Lots of dubious, new age mumbo jumbo and bro science. There is still some fantastic content and some highly knowledgeable folks, but you have to sift though the muck to find it. I am not sure what it is about the health and fitness industry that brings out the lunatics, but it certainly does.

It's easy. The general public knows little to nothing about it but it's also a topic a lot of the general public want to know about cause so many people are overweight.
This leads to dubious people doing anything to sell crap to the general public, cause they can because the general public doesn't know any better.

Fuzzipeg

I did once write a blog on here, I have looked back at it. It is what OP and others would describe a bro science. This thing is in discovering salicylate sensitivity really has made a real difference to my life. I was no longer in great pain in my joints and more.

Our local endocrinologist told my doctor salicylate in food would not cause my problems it was a story to suite my situation. The immunologist at the regional centre supported me full heartedly, they knew the interactions within the dna which can happen. My point. Not everything one reads is bro science and its not just the general public who do not know about these things.

Functional Medicine gets rubbish reviews on here but they are using cutting edge science. The immunologist is on that road as far as our medical system will permit.

PaulaWallaDingDong

The "featured blogs" on mfp are often junk. I gave up on them altogether.

pinuplove

I've gotten much better, no nonsense, no woo advice here than from the silly fluff pieces MFP calls blogs. I don't even bother reading them any more.

seska422

I think that many of the MFP articles on the BLOG tab of the website are entertaining from a "seriously?" point of view. Especially the "nutrition" bloggers with no education credentials and the thinly-veiled advertisements.

It does irk me that the MFP blog is part of the starting page on the Android app and so many of the blog articles have food porn pictures. I really don't need that temptation staring me in the face when I log food.