Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Ha! Lifehacker tried hard to be controversial but couldn't make it!

Last night I pointed to a piece on Lifehacker which listed some health myths which they "busted".  One of them was to do with cholesterol.  Of course the cholesterol hypothesis as usually understood is a pile of microbiome, and initially Lifehacker in their post pointed this out.  I cut and pasted the relevant paragraph into yesterday's post.

Today that whole paragraph has disappeared!  Instead there is something on snake venom with this footnote:

Note: Myth 9 previously discussed the relationship between high cholesterol and heart disease. We were working with some bad information and now believe it was incorrect, so we've added this snake bite myth instead. We apologize for any confusion or misinformation.

What a bunch of tossers!  They originally pointed to Malcolm Kendrick and Chris Kresser who refuted the cholesterol hypothesis but they now think that all that was "bad".    Ha.

Here is another refutation.

7 comments:

BJ McCurley said...

Weak.

Funny too because I had starred that article in Reader to go back to see if they actually were on the level. Saw your article first and gave a nod like you did. What a crock that they revised it. Wonder who put the screws to them...

Chris said...

Cheers BJ. Weak as you say

BJ McCurley said...

It was still showing the original article in my feed reader.

Recorded for posterity :)

http://i.imgur.com/0cQYE.png

Chris said...

Thanks BJ

Anonymous said...

Read Chris Masterjohn's articles on cholesterol. High cholesterol, depending on the numbers, is not necessarily a benign state that doesn't come with problems, including cardiovascular disease. Lets not make this into a simple "those silly scientists don't know what they are talking about" issue. As is often the case, the truth is somewhere in-between the high cholesterol doesn't matter opinion and the high cholesterol will kill you opinion.

Adam said...

hahahaha classic. Perhaps Lifehacker got pressure from some food lobby...

Pathetic. The article was about science. So the witches came in and got them to pull it down...

praguestepchild said...

Definitely weak. What is even more idiotic is the dietary cholesterol myth which is still pushed pretty hard, especially by vegan doctors (like PCRM). Don't eat cholesterol or it will go straight into your arteries and *boom* heart attack. Hacks.