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[Malachi]

It’s something to the effect of using old marketing tricks to sell his own product line.

the apex of the epitome of douchery is marketing products on a website?

It’s the same as Ben Johnson holding a Cheetah can, except he is his own celebrity.

so you have a problem with celebrity endorsements…that is so all-encompassing that it extends to entrepreneurs.

I read the page you linked to. It’s simply common sense with a dose of comical throwbacks to primitive life for flavour.

however sensible it may be to eschew grains, it certainly is not common sense at least not in a country where things like soy, rice, and bread are considered healthy.

His sales tactic is ye olde scare people out of “modern medicine” and into his expensive product line.

actually it isnt. Sisson infrequently pumps his own products, an activity that you may dislike personally, but an activity that is hardly unusual in the diet and fitness industry. Pick up a bodybuilding/fitness magazine and you’ll see what I mean. As for his statements on modern diets, lifestyles, and medicine, they are supported with reason and evidence, but you never read that far, did you?

He claims that, “Most of life is really much simpler than modern medicine and science would like to have you believe.” Yet not so simple as to live without his $200 pills, “premium content” and whatever other junk he pitches.

no where does he imply that his products are necessary for health. They are primal products, more or less (which fits with the philosophy of the website), and they tend to make primal diet easier for some people. You seem to have a problem with the very idea of retail sales.

Apparently “simple” in his language means ignore everyone else and listen to his “special” wisdom.

nothing on that website would justify that equivocation, nor even suggest it. You are making stuff up.

There’s a good reason that guru marketers distance themselves from anyone with education and play rebel.

implying that Mark Sisson distances himself from educated people. More imagination-driven rhetoric from Caley.

If there are fools here, I’m not one of them.

Not in your own estimation, of course. You think the 50 year old small business owner is a fool for selling supplements and telling people not to eat grains. Youre a math genius.

The only things I’ve “proclaimed” are facts about my history. This is my view on experts. At least try a less transparent lie next time.

what about this?

I also feel compelled to say as someone that was an actual math “genius” (which in truth means little) in school IRL that I always feel insulted by stories about such people.

Good Will Hunting: Bar Scene - #28 by Caley_McKibbin Maybe you should keep your stories straight if you want to call people liars for reminding you of stupid things you said earlier.

FTR, my comment was rhetorical. It’s rather absurd on the face of it to make some abstract statement about “health” in reference to research. Research produces specific results. It doesn’t define “health”.

its poorly executed rhetoric, since those studies are referenced on Sisson’s website. And if you would take the time to read a few articles with an open mind (assuming thats even within your capacity) you would see just how concrete data is applied to abstract notions such as wellness in order to arrive at practices such as the primal diet.

That choice of word was random. I wasn’t commenting on his health, I wouldn’t assess his health and I don’t care about what anyone else invalidly assumes about his “health”.

yes, I dont think anyone should care about invalid assumptions. If you would take five minutes to research someone before you slander them or apply random pejoratives, you could see that recognizing someone’s physical condition and characterizing it as “healthy” doesnt have to be invalid and it doesnt have to be an assumption.