[bad_good_guy]

I'd have to agree with this.

A lot of anecdotes about people switching to keto and feeling better, but not giving the context of what kind of food they were eating beforehand.

As I'm sure many of us know, a lot of software engineers (to be fair, this applies to most people as well) have very bad diets; buying fast food lunch every day, eating free snacks, etc.

[k8svet]

Really wish people would stop invalidating others because of their own god damn protection.

I haven't eaten fast food in decades. Cutting gluten changed my life. Go on everyone, tell me how I'm a fraud.

[agos]

what irks me about dismissing people's experience is that is so unscientific.

The response should not be "surely they had crap diets" or "it's just placebo/it's just psychosomatic", it should be "uhm, I wonder why this is happening, let's investigate.

which is the whole point of the article, after all

[Almondsetat]

When people describe their diets they have enormous biases and subjective considerations.

So yes, people's experiences told by themselves are unscientific