[makeitdouble]

I don't think parent is hinting at a conspiracy, and more at "natural" selection based on omnipresence of peanuts.

With no knowledge about how i goes for babies, the question would be how a 2~3 month allergic kid [0] would react to peanuts, including when not directly ingested. If it had adverse effects it would go along the line of what parent is describing.

[0] can kids that age already be allergic to peanuts ?

[marcosdumay]

So, at the end of a long thread full of information that discards genetics, your explanation for it is... genetics.

[makeitdouble]

I took it as a warning about potential misinterpretation of causes and effects, and in particular the difficulty to assign a single cause to the near absence of allergy in a population.

Allergies are a subject I need to know a lot more about, so sadly at this point I don't have an explanation for anything.

[marcosdumay]

Yet you are the one insisting on a single cause.

[makeitdouble]

Having some babies get hit at early age by allergies doesn't exclude any other mechanism running in parallel, including other babies adapting their immune system, or even families moving out of the country for health reason.

I don't see how any of what I said is either insistant or limiting to a single cause.

[type_enthusiast]

I was not hinting at any conspiracy, and my comment wasn't directed toward Israel in particular (knowing nothing about the study that the top-level comment alluded to).

I was facetiously pointing out that a population where everyone eats peanuts at a young age is likely to be allergy-free if only due to the fact that those with peanut allergies would die, and therefore would no longer be allergic to peanuts. A naive analysis of the data could lead to a conclusion that eating peanuts at a young age causes a favorable change in allergy outcomes later in life.

[swores]

For the record, I don't agree with your edit saying that your original comment deserved the downvotes it got. I'm not sure if people just completely missed the point you were making, or if, as I think likely, the current political climate around Israel/Palestine led to a few pro-Israel people wrongly assuming you were being anti-Israeli, but either way I'm glad you contributed and were able to clarify what you meant.