This used to be common knowledge ...

I can't link to it, but I think there were some businesses that closed in some city in...Washington I think it was? It was a city where they did not wait for the national minimum wage, they just increased it locally somehow.

The thing is, either side will see the same evidence as supporting only their argument. So I suspect if you hear the same evidence as me, you will still hold your opinion of the matter.

Take the traditional Inuit (before modern societies got to them) for example. They ate a diet of mostly raw fish and blubber and basically zero carbs for many months of the year. Yes they had other plants and things (maybe seaweed), I'm just being general. In most people that would induce a state of ketosis, whereby your body converts protein to glucose through a process called gluconeogenesis, it produces ketones somehow (I forgot, maybe from the fat), and most of the muscles and organs become insulin resistant so they can primarily burn fatty acids for fuel (also fat). A lot of anti-low-carbers argue that long-term ketosis may be bad. But a lot of pro-low-carbers consistently point to the Inuit as an example of long-term ketosis thriving.

Now there has been a genetic discovery very recently that the Inuit have a flaw in their DNA which prevents them from entering ketosis. According to the study a certain segment of the Inuit population simply cannot enter a state of ketosis. Guess what? The low-carb people still take that evidence to mean ketosis is a good thing, and the anti-low-carb people take the same evidence to support their argument that ketosis might be harmful in the long-term. It's evidence, but either side still thinks it supports their argument.

You have to be able to come up with a statement that can be easily disproved. When Einstein had a book written about him "100 Scientists Against Einstein" it was extremely easy for him to prove he was right. The predictions of those scientists were compared to Einstein's predictions, regarding some experiment involving the rotation of the planets. And Einstein turned out to be right, and they turned out to be wrong. In his words, "If I were wrong, one would have been enough." If I remember, some of those scientists very obviously did not understand relativity.

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