By &quot;carrot&quot;, I meant &quot;wombat&quot;.<p>And literally the topic of this thread is an article discussing how small sample sizes, bad methodology, and statistical massaging&#x2F;manipulation (depending on where you want to situate people on the stupid&#x2F;evil continuum) mean that nutritional studies can&#x27;t actually be trusted. The evidence that we have is all over the map.