Once upon a time, we resided on top of the Duning-Kruger Effect’s ‘Mount Stupid.’ We once engaged in fear-mongering. We once judged. We once proselytized. But after a few hard lessons, we stopped cold turkey. Over the course of years and several hard-learned lessons, we managed to escape our Ivory Towers, and plunged into the depths of what can only be accurately described as “Impostor Syndrome Territory” in search of greater truth and better health. Now I will introduce you to the things that played a role in our evolution of thought.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias and phenomena in which people tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities, and lack metacognitive ability to recognize their own incompetence. This effect of this cognitive bias results in an illusory sense of superiority and authority— and allowed us to speak about the Paleo Diet passionately, with an extraordinary level of confidence and self-assuredness.
Although we knew without a shadow of a doubt that the Paleo Diet had the capacity to save lives, we also believed that the Paleo Diet was the only key to healthy and longevity, and that all other dietary modalities were the cause of poor health. Given this (erroneous) belief, we made the unfortunate mistake of fear-mongering, judging, and proselytizing,.
Fear-mongering is defined as the action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue. In our case, we were absolutists in the belief that no individual should consume dairy, grains, and legumes. And every shred of evidence we had to support our position was shared far and wide among members of the group that we started, The International Paleo Movement Group (IPMG). Members of the group were instrumental in aiding us in spreading fear about “toxic” foods like sugar, dairy products, legumes, and glutenous foods.
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