Is it Possible I Don't Know Anything at All?

 I've watched doctors on You Tube explain this or that about diets of various kinds and claim connections between things.  What follows is a presentation by Nina Teicholz a New York Times investigative journalist. 

I thought I knew things, apparently I don't , and I'm not sure the people I listened to did either:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rz-8H_i1wA

 

 


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