Re: More FAKE science for you

On 1/8/2025 11:28 PM, JTEM wrote:

  I've seen a lot of stories like this, including one "Science"
piece suggesting that native Americans did NOT eat the
buffalo but instead followed the herds eating the weeds that
grew in their beaten path... including some inedible ones.
 Anyway, so our Vegan ancestors now:
 https://www.newsweek.com/diet-human-ancestor-revealed-780000-year-old- food-2011900
 It's all WokeTardia.
 The problem here is two fold in that 1) people are jackasses
that'll believe ANYTHING and 2) any science that lacks an
apparent economic or national security value is politics. It
has ZERO value to the grant writers, the people holding the
purse strings.
 Oo!  To prove 1) here:  Not a single person capable of reading
this group lacked awareness of the political control over
science back when Dubya Bush was President, and the creationists
(I.D. proponents) had their sights on evolution.
 THEN everyone just kind of agreed to forget how easily
corruptible science is, and haven't questioned it since.
   

The article is expressing nothing new.  When I took anthropology back in the mid 1970s we were already told that studies on existing modern hunter gatherer populations found that nearly 70% of the calories consumed came from the gatherers and not the hunters.  Gatherers would include insects, snails, and other small animals, but mostly found roots, seeds and edible leaves.  Some fruits and berries are toxic. They even ate fungi.  This was ancient culture.  Everyone has to learn which mushrooms that can be gathered, and which ones to be left alone. The initial learning process was likely forced upon them by sparse food supply and a costly (in terms of human life) learning process.  Humans have eaten anything that they could find to be edible for a very long time.
Ron Okimoto