Two of my favorite SF authors now, John Scalzi, and Charles Stross have posted about Michael J. Nelson's decision to eat only bacon for a month. What saddens me is that both have taken the rather uninformed knee-jerk stand that what Nelson is doing is potentially lethal. Fortunately a few replies on their blogs have pointed out that such a diet, while perhaps being a bit monotonous, is unlikely to do much harm, and Nelson will most assuredly not going to gain weight or collapse of clogged arteries.
I guess what bothers me most is that I would have expected successful science fiction authors to be more open-minded and insightful, and taken a little time to consider the potential that the current popular viewpoint, carefully shaped over the years by farming lobbies, might be wrong.
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