Indeed. As I wrote in Fad diet, fad diets are generated from a confluence of sincerity and stupidity.
* Person does thing A. * Shortly after, person experiences thing B. * Person concludes A caused B. * Person writes book generalising this as the solution for everyone else in the whole world.
This process produces diets suffering certain fairly obvious and important epistemic and scientific deficiencies.
That said, I liked all the food in the diet and the claimed results were remarkable. So I tried it and ... it worked.
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Date: 2011-03-16 05:09 pm (UTC)* Person does thing A.
* Shortly after, person experiences thing B.
* Person concludes A caused B.
* Person writes book generalising this as the solution for everyone else in the whole world.
This process produces diets suffering certain fairly obvious and important epistemic and scientific deficiencies.
That said, I liked all the food in the diet and the claimed results were remarkable. So I tried it and ... it worked.