Raw Milk Has Real Risks

Maybe its time we push back a bit more on MAHA and some of their "science." It doesn't have to be nasty or a war, but a lot of what influencers are pushing is harmful.

The other day I read an article here on Substack about raw milk. (You can read it by clicking here) I had a very polite exchange with the author, so none of this is meant as a shot at her personally. Two things in her piece did bothered me. One was the wrong information about the risks and benefits of raw milk. The other was the claim that the science community operates on “groupthink.”

Groupthink is a real psychological phenomenon. A group prioritizes agreement and harmony over critical thinking and independent judgment. Members get reluctant to question ideas, voice doubts, or propose alternatives. The group makes worse decisions than the individuals in it would have made alone.

That accusation has gotten a lot of traction in the age of MAHA and RFK Jr. Sadly, plenty of people in both camps (and they overlap more than either side admits) aren’t trained scientists. They’ve mistaken the scientific method for groupthink. I’ll get to that. First, raw milk versus pasteurized, on the actual…