Conspiracy =/= wrong + contrarian. That’s an issue with the current Overton window. Conspiracy used to mean people conspiring.
So there’s a difference between “carbs bad”—which is probably just wrong and contrarian, and “cereal companies colluded to convince you meat and fat are unhealthy, so you’d eat their sugar cereal,” which is a conspiracy theory.
The reason conspiracy theories are typically (rightly) ridiculed is that they tack on a whole bunch of non Occam’s Razor propositions to a theory, without the accompanying evidence. The conspiracy from cereal companies is one possible explanation for why meat/fat were incorrectly demonized, but it requires more evidence to assert than just “fat and meat have been incorrectly demonized.”
All this is to say—he’s not a conspiracy theorist, even with the carbs/fat thing. He might be wrong and contrarian (I also believe carbs are fine, so I believe he is), but to call it “conspiracy” is incorrect.
Conspiracy =/= wrong + contrarian. That’s an issue with the current Overton window. Conspiracy used to mean people conspiring.
So there’s a difference between “carbs bad”—which is probably just wrong and contrarian, and “cereal companies colluded to convince you meat and fat are unhealthy, so you’d eat their sugar cereal,” which is a conspiracy theory.
The reason conspiracy theories are typically (rightly) ridiculed is that they tack on a whole bunch of non Occam’s Razor propositions to a theory, without the accompanying evidence. The conspiracy from cereal companies is one possible explanation for why meat/fat were incorrectly demonized, but it requires more evidence to assert than just “fat and meat have been incorrectly demonized.”
All this is to say—he’s not a conspiracy theorist, even with the carbs/fat thing. He might be wrong and contrarian (I also believe carbs are fine, so I believe he is), but to call it “conspiracy” is incorrect.