Roar Stovner
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Roar Stovner
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Avid mathematics teacher that researches teaching. Currently studying how citations may distort or lend unwarranted authority to scientific claims.

I work at Oslo Metropolitan University in the Department of Teacher Education
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Another snippet from the Lancet review mentions the mechanisms, see picture. I'm looking forward to comments on this Lancet series. The framing of the series seems entirely uncritical, so I wondered whether it was peer-reviewed, but it seems it was.
Altogether, the evidence shows that harm from UPF consumption is not solely due to dietary nutrient profile deterioration. As discussed in hypothesis 2, other plausible factors include hyper-palatability, high non- beverage energy density, disrupted food structures, soft texture, low content of health-protective phytochemicals, toxic contaminants created during processing or released from packaging materials, and potentially harmful classes and mixtures of additives.
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Ooh, and Saldana's "Blue-collar qualitative researcher" piece is a fun dunk on too fancy epistemologies!
Excerpt reading: "I used to think that the “intellectual elite” attack was the narrow-minded conservatives’ slam-dunk at things they didn’t understand. But after hearin’ some of them “intellectual elites” at research conferences, maybe they got a point. After all, I think that post-structuralists are the Republicans of qualitative inquiry—they’s firmly convinced that they’s always right and everybody else should think the same way. Fuck that. There’s been this talk in our field ’bout the “crisis of representation.” Well, lemme tell you: Some of us are the “crisis of representation” ’cause a coupla people out there are representin’ themselves as real elitist assholes."
April 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM