At least with user submitted noisy data you have individual data points, and potential to track individuals over time… unlike the China Study where entire communities were just averaged into a single point.
There’s some usable information in the China Study, but not as much as people think… it’s being touted as “proof” that all animal-based foods cause cancer (in a popular diet book by the primary investigator Dr. Campbell) because the two were well correlated in the data, when it’s nothing of the sort.
At least with user submitted noisy data you have individual data points, and potential to track individuals over time… unlike the China Study where entire communities were just averaged into a single point.
There’s some usable information in the China Study, but not as much as people think… it’s being touted as “proof” that all animal-based foods cause cancer (in a popular diet book by the primary investigator Dr. Campbell) because the two were well correlated in the data, when it’s nothing of the sort.