So let me get this right. Serious scientists think that paleolithic humans drank milk to get vitamin D?
Really?
There is very little vitamin D in milk and in fact only trace amounts and in the UK milk is not fortified with vitamin D.People think there is vitamin D in milk because it is added artificially. I can understand that misconception from most people, but this article is from a science publication.
Why would you think that scientists are less liable to that particular kind of mistake?
ReplyDeleteBecause I would have thought it was an elementary science fact. It would be like an engineer not knowing that steel is almost always made partly from recycled steel. Or a professional cook not knowing that cooking times have to be adjusted at high altitude.
ReplyDeleteThe problem of specialization, maybe. E.g., you can be a biologist and know nothing of physics.
ReplyDeleteOn reflection, I suspect that the problem was created by an editor, not the scientist. Carefully reading the article, I see that the mention of vitamin D has to do with absorption of calcium, which, I guess, is part of the reason that it makes sense to put it in milk instead of, say, bologna.
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