Rebuttal to Nutrition Skeptics Everywhere - Is Their Skepticism Valid?


by Nick A. James - Date: 2006-12-28 - Word Count: 485 Share This!

Here are ways to judge for yourself.

There are nay-sayers everywhere you look, the world since time began has always had its share of skeptics and doubters. With most nay-sayers you can almost always trace their negativity back to a financial motive for maintaining the status quo. In that light don't expect the maker of vinyl records jumping for joy at the invention of the audio CD.

In the same vein should we be very surprised when someone who makes a living with the current health system status quo is critical or refuses to recognize that alternative nutrition products may be of value.

So it begs the question how can we determine when skepticism is warranted and when it's simply natural prejudice with no basis in fact? Here are some revealing answers.

First someone will often either intentionally or not use what I call the classic magicians trick. The magician and in this case the skeptic will focus the audience on one specific area diverting them from what is really going on.

Questioning whether the health product or nutritional supplement would be of benefit in that specific area while ignoring evidence that the product has been very beneficial in other areas.

Anybody has the right to be critical of any product including health and nutrition products, but if they are wrong they should be held up for criticism themselves.

So it begs the $100,000 question, is the skeptic being critical of the product including health and nutrition products because of prejudice or because the product simply stinks?

Here are 3 ways you can discern this.

1. Does the skeptic market a competing nutrition product? This is certainly a clue that person could be prejudiced.

2. I've also seen this tactic used before, a skeptic publishes an article being negative about a product that is hot in the news in order to obtain search engine ranking. And favorable rankings produce an abundance of internet traffic to their website, which they now can try to convert into customers for the particular products (health, nutrition supplements etc) they're selling.

3. Have actual credible tests been conducted which show the nutrition product in question doesn't provide its reported benefits, or is the skeptic simply trying to cast doubt on current and previous studies?

Any of us can be skeptical of virtually anything under the sun, but we can also be totally wrong. Face it the last time I checked the ability to be skeptical was not an indicator of talent.

I tend to ignore the type of skeptics above. My rationale is simply give the product in question daily to 20 or 30 people over a 90 day period. Record and track the results daily and then report the results after 90 days.

If the majority of those people don't report any results after 90 days then you have good reason to be skeptical. Otherwise I don't give skeptics of health and nutrition products too much credence until they can prove their case.


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