Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism in public science discourse:
"60% of our diets in the UK come from ultra processed foods, and what this does is it displaces us being able to eat the foods that our gut bacteria really enjoy, so those foods that are rich in fibre, fibre being that plant roughage in fruits and vegetables and whole grains and beans and legumes. And what we think is this potentially then starves our gut bacteria form being able to do all those beneficial things that we know that they do for our body."
Dr Emily Leeming
Dr Emily Leeming (King's College London) was talking on an episode ('Cook from Scratch') of BBC's 'Just One Thing – with Michael Mosley'.
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