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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 2d

The report is here:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

And there's a full-text version here:
openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/21...

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

www.thelancet.com

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 2d

As the new EAT-Lancet Report sparks more Meat Wars, here's what you need to know:

- The enviro case against beef/lamb is strong
- The enviro case against poultry/pork is meh
- The human health case against meat is weak (except for sat fat content, which is strong)

Go forth and enjoy food.

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 3d

MY COUSIN VINNY

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 3d

So, interacting with sycophants leads to increased self-perception ... hmmmm ...

Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New preprint 🚨

Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.

Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thread 🧵

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 3d

Yes - lots of granularity! I don't think NHANES is accurate enough to tease out changes. USDA data shows loss-adjusted veg data basically basically flat-lined since the 80s. But if the category drops in price vis a vis other foods without increased consumption, surely that tells us *something.*

Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 3d

Yes but all the increase came before the time we're talking about.

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 3d

And yet, in that time, American veg consumption has flatlined, or maybe even dropped a bit.

People just don't like to eat vegetables.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/vege...

Vegetable consumption per capita

Average per capita vegetable consumption, measured in kilograms per person per year.

ourworldindata.org

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Thomas J Wood @thomasjwood.bsky.social · 6d

The last time I posted the income relationship to presidential vote among White respondents to the @electionstudies.bsky.social ANES, people asked for additional estimates among all voters.

Updated estimates here:

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 3d

they asked the experts
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/w...

Is It OK to Use Your Phone on the Toilet?

www.nytimes.com

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 4d

The money goes to the media outlet. Which, in turn, has to pay journalists.

Journalists are getting squeezed out primarily because it's almost impossible to run a real news organization at a reasonable profit.

Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know that we can. I think the game probably is lost.

Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 4d

Why don't we have more good journalism?

Mostly, because people are unwilling to pay for it.

We have, collectively, gotten the idea that information should be free for the reading.

You can't complain about lousy reporting & analysis and also gripe about paywalls.

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 4d

You know all those journal articles that say "data available on request?"

It's mostly bullshit.

Only 17% of articles claiming it actually delivered the data.

@ianhussey.mmmdata.io reports.

open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 4d

Bots. I got a ton too.

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 4d

Anybody else getting an influx of bot followers this morning?

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 5d

OK, OK, we'll make them nutritional epidemiologists does that make you happy?

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 5d

These are the villains! TV shows need villains!

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 5d

THE P-HACKERS

This brilliant, ruthless group of statisticians will stop at nothing to get publishable results.

Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Sep 27

14 new shows a year about medical doctors. Zero shows ever about medical statisticians. WTF!?

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 6d

Lemme check back with you in 34 ...

Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 6d

I think it depends on which direction you think they're off! Mostly, people think industrial ag is worse than it is. And it can be bad! But it can also be good. I also think a general dislike of industrial ag is what motivates specific stuff - anti-glyphosate, anti-GMO. Those are handholds.

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 6d

I'm a long-time organic supporter, mostly because it's a way for farmers to find like-minded consumers, and is therefore more profitable.

That said, public perception is WAY out of line with organic reality. People think the benefits are much bigger than they are, and they don't see the downsides.

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, that's a huge one.

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 6d

How come illegal & unconstitutional shit just keeps on happening??

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, I think the problem isn't so much the study per se as the overreach in interpretation. It's that pesky causal inference issue.

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