## [Clearer Thinking Podcast: What we know and don't know about nutrition (with Gil Carvalho)](https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/212/gil-carvalho-what-we-know-and-don-t-know-about-nutrition/) YouTube videos about nutrition are bad. They are so bad, that if I sent you a link to a YT video about nutrition, you'd be justified in questioning my intelligence. But [Gil Carvalho's channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/NutritionMadeSimple) is actually good. No really! In the past, you'd have to take my word for it. But now you can instead take [Spencer Greenberg](https://x.com/SpencrGreenberg)'s word for it, and he is a person generally regarded as smart. What makes it good? Well, most YT videos on nutrition are bad because they have an agenda and misinform their viewer by cherry picking evidence that supports that agenda. This is really easy to do in nutrition, and honestly I don't blame people who fall for it. For example, seed oil truthers will focus on mechanistic, ecological, and animal model evidence, while neglecting the mountain of much stronger evidence that points to seed oils being just fine. Gil embodies the opposite of this, looking at the sum total of evidence and doing his best to tell which way it points. This means his views are often pretty orthodox, but I'm ok with that. [[2023-08-05#[Twitter Natália defends the scientific consensus](https //twitter.com/natalia__coelho/status/1687533096961523712)|The consensus is usually right.]]