21 Jan 2017
It made
me groan to read of the study and of the editorial that followed, suggesting
that we are wasting 57 percent of our food. The short answer is that we
aren’t, and that we should wait for the next study to overthrow the results of
this one.
It is
obvious that this is another cock-and-bull sociological study, with invalid and
insignificant data. In the first place, by what right does one
extrapolate from the study group to society as a whole? What would the
results be if you had a different study group, or a different set of observers,
or both? And who, exactly, constitutes the “we”? Is Somali society
more economical than slovenly westerners? What about conservative
Christians, or Vegans? And how exact is that number of 57 percent?
The study made gross and unjustifiable generalizations, obviously for the
publicity.
By the
way, how’s that “global warming” theory working out for you today?
Far too
many people glom onto science to gain respectability for their work,
unjustifiably. The food study is another case in point.
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