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Showing it’s bad in mice on a high fat diet is hardly evidence of anything in humans.

Mice typically don’t eat meat… why would we expect their response to meat to be at all related to ours?

Because that's an easy argument which you can just deploy to force people into your opinion and silence them if they deviate. Here, have a study, it's peer reviewed. Are you going to question that? Now you are unscientific, uneducated and a bad person in general.

Did you downvote said comment because of its questionable content or because of your projected strawman, what would happen when you question its content?

This silencing you are speaking of is imo a product of a toxic discourse culture.

No idea what you are talking about. I simply replied to the parent and gave an explanation that could answer the question. I have no study to prove my point though.

These are knockout mice where they have changed the CMAH gene to mirror how it is in humans. Of course there is no 1-to-1 correlation, but we can hypothesize about why the dietary change works now that we have an idea of the underlying mechanism.

No we can’t.

If you fed a human a mouse diet would you then conclude that it’s not healthy for mice because of what it did to humans?

I’m sorry, this is just completely illogical.

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