More FAKE science for you

[JTEM]

I've seen a lot of stories like this, including one "Science"
piece suggesting that native Americans did NOT eat the
buffalo but instead followed the herds eating the weeds that
grew in their beaten path... including some inedible ones.

Anyway, so our Vegan ancestors now:

https://www.newsweek.com/diet-human-ancestor-revealed-780000-year-old-food-2011900

It's all WokeTardia.

The problem here is two fold in that 1) people are jackasses
that'll believe ANYTHING and 2) any science that lacks an
apparent economic or national security value is politics. It
has ZERO value to the grant writers, the people holding the
purse strings.

Oo! To prove 1) here: Not a single person capable of reading
this group lacked awareness of the political control over
science back when Dubya Bush was President, and the creationists
(I.D. proponents) had their sights on evolution.

THEN everyone just kind of agreed to forget how easily
corruptible science is, and haven't questioned it since.

[RonO]

Post by JTEM
I've seen a lot of stories like this, including one "Science"
piece suggesting that native Americans did NOT eat the
buffalo but instead followed the herds eating the weeds that
grew in their beaten path... including some inedible ones.
https://www.newsweek.com/diet-human-ancestor-revealed-780000-year-old-
food-2011900
It's all WokeTardia.
The problem here is two fold in that 1) people are jackasses
that'll believe ANYTHING and 2) any science that lacks an
apparent economic or national security value is politics. It
has ZERO value to the grant writers, the people holding the
purse strings.
Oo!  To prove 1) here:  Not a single person capable of reading
this group lacked awareness of the political control over
science back when Dubya Bush was President, and the creationists
(I.D. proponents) had their sights on evolution.
THEN everyone just kind of agreed to forget how easily
corruptible science is, and haven't questioned it since.

The article is expressing nothing new. When I took anthropology back in
the mid 1970s we were already told that studies on existing modern
hunter gatherer populations found that nearly 70% of the calories
consumed came from the gatherers and not the hunters. Gatherers would
include insects, snails, and other small animals, but mostly found
roots, seeds and edible leaves. Some fruits and berries are toxic.
They even ate fungi. This was ancient culture. Everyone has to learn
which mushrooms that can be gathered, and which ones to be left alone.
The initial learning process was likely forced upon them by sparse food
supply and a costly (in terms of human life) learning process. Humans
have eaten anything that they could find to be edible for a very long time.

Ron Okimoto

[JTEM]

Post by RonO
The article is expressing nothing new.

So why express it at all?

Post by RonO
When I took anthropology back in
the mid 1970s we were already told that studies on existing modern
hunter gatherer populations found that nearly 70% of the calories
consumed came from the gatherers and not the hunters.

We know that Neanderthals were more heavily reliant on meat. There's
been isotopic analysis claiming they appeared more carnivore than
predators.

[RonO]

Post by JTEM

Post by RonO
The article is expressing nothing new.

So why express it at all?

Post by RonO
When I took anthropology back in the mid 1970s we were already told
that studies on existing modern hunter gatherer populations found that
nearly 70% of the calories consumed came from the gatherers and not
the hunters.

We know that Neanderthals were more heavily reliant on meat. There's
been isotopic analysis claiming they appeared more carnivore than
predators.

They survived in ice age Europe and likely had a diet more like Inuits
for most of the year, but the inuits would still eat as much vegetation
as they could get their hands on. They could get the vitamin C that
they needed from the animals that they ate, but it would not have been
considered to be a more than adequate source. Utzi the ice man carried
berries with him when he died.

Ron Okimoto