Hi everyone. Welcome to today's Science versus Bullshit, which actually going to be a little bit

different. I'm going to do, once I make sure everything is working, which is God, I think that was

the smoothest time I've ever done it. It's going to go really well. Yeah, I'm going to do a few

client questions that I've had,

partly because I'm slightly behind with them and partly because I think they're really

interesting and hopefully other people will too. And the other thing that has gone crazy today

is the post that I did this morning on smaller portion sizes.

And I think part of it's because of the way that the media has obviously made it

clickbait because shocked it was the Daily Mail.

But it's been interesting some of the comments.

And also interesting from like a business standpoint, a lot of the comments are like as long as, so the

claim is we should have options or the suggestion is we should have options where there's

portion sizes that are 25% smaller for smaller people and the example given is women, right?

So a lot of people are like kind of upset about the fact that the example is women.

And then the next part is like, well, as long as they're cheaper.

And this kind of is an interesting concept of like if people expect it to be 25% cheaper,

they're going to be very disappointed.

Because when you really think about the business model of a like a restaurant or something there's absolutely no way that they could

possibly make something 25% cheaper like it would just be unsustainable and yeah so we'll

see what happens with that I think it's quite a sensible suggestion.

But some people like to be outraged.

And I get, like, you probably didn't have to mention women.

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