Hate-reading skincare quackery

Anyone want to join me? I hate to drive traffic to this person's blog, but please, I need someone to hold my hand through this one. It's about how there's this one superhero renegade doctor who has discovered the truth (by citing studies from the 1950s) about how polyunsaturated fats are the "real" cause of aging. Rather than sun damage or, you know, age. So the list includes all vegetable oils, except coconut oil and extra virgin olive oil, basically, as well as fish oil. If you want to avoid wrinkles, according to this theory, you have to stop eating fish, avocados, seeds and nuts, etc.

This information is not coming from some marginal "natural" website, but from an apparently well-established beauty blogger, who was a former beauty editor of Elle Canada.

One of my favorite parts is when someone asks in the comments about whether or not her guru has published any peer-reviewed studies. The author responds:

Haha no. Scientific journals are mainly funded by pharmaceutical companies and food industries. Their financial interests result in a lot of bias and fraud, and they exert heavy influence over what gets published.  [. . .]  [Y]our choices would either be to a) change your position i.e. “go along to get along”, and get the prestige/money/published papers/top positions or b) go out on your own, as he has done with his own books and newsletters. Most people in this world obviously choose a).

Fascinating. Any scientists out there who would like to share their experiences with choosing between lying about omega-3s or being kicked out of science? Sounds like an exciting story. I'd like to hear about the techniques that Big Fish Oil uses to pressure you to compromise your integrity.

Another quotation from the author's comments:

From Ray Peat’s [the guru in question] coconut oil article: Many people have asked me to write something on coconut oil. I thought I might write a small book on it, but I realize that there are no suitable channels for distributing such a book–if the seed-oil industry can eliminate major corporate food products that have used coconut oil for a hundred years, they certainly have the power to prevent dealers from selling a book that would affect their market more seriously.

Wow, Big Canola even controls the publishing industry! How deep does it go? Do you think the Illuminati are involved somehow? "I’m genuinely curious how you think I could harm myself from not eating PUFA oils? Because Canada’s Food Guide says saturated fats are bad for you? It must be true then! (haha)" OMG, they control the Canadian government too! (Also from the comments.)

If you really want your head to explode, look at this list of people whose research supposedly supports the theory of her guru, which includes such figures as Charles Darwin, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, William Blake, Ivan Pavlov, Peter Kropotkin, Baruch Spinoza, and Ivan Illich. I don't even . . . is it just a list of names that she thinks sounds impressive?

Okay, I'll stop now before I have a stroke. But it bothers me because there are so many people in the comments convinced now that they've been damaging their faces by eating salad.