Apparently antioxidants actually kill you

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9. This is hardly an indictment of 'nutritional science'. It's an indictment of the food industry.

The fact that the food industry uses bad science and misleading advertising to sell their shit should come as no surprise to anybody.

It's a shame that government doesn't do it's duty and actually regulate the misleading statements made by food companies. For example, the 'No trans-fat' promotion on the front of Coffee-Mate creamer, when in fact, Coffee-Mate is primarily made from trans-fat. But because of sloppy regulation and misleading portion size, Coffee-Mate can claim it has No trans-fat because it contains less than 1gr of trans-fat per serving.

The fact that science is continually proposing and rejecting hypotheses isn't a rejection of science either. It's pretty much the definition of how real scientific investigation is supposed to work. Unlike the pseudo-science of the right-wing, who propose a theory and simply rejects any contradictory evidence.