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pie_flavoryesterday at 10:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

Other, much dumber nutrition cranks like Anthony William and Gary Null have Wikipedia pages. Fundamentally, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to be the place that you go to when you hear a concept and want to look up what it is.


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alright2565yesterday at 11:22 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#General_n...

You are welcome to join the conversation and try and convince everyone maintaining Wikipedia that random peoples' tweets should be considered a reliable source. Both those other people you mention have been mentioned multiple times in various reliable articles (see the bibliography), while the only thing I can find online about Ray Peat is something that looks a whole lot like blogspam on usnews.com.

jrflowerstoday at 12:25 AM

The existence of some nutrition pseudoscientists that meet Wikipedia’s threshold of notability does not mean that being a nutrition pseudoscientist by itself qualifies a person as being sufficiently notable. Wikipedia doesn’t need an exhaustive list of every kook with weird opinions about food, there are other websites for that, like grokipedia.