When I read your original post I thought you were posting this to poke fun at the claims made on the Bulletproof coffee website. This was reinforced by clicking the link and seeing the claims made on the website. It was further reinforced by your edit stating:
double_shot wrote:EDIT: Humm I'm not so sure this was the best section to post this in. CB please move it if there is a better location.
I decided to support you in poking fun at the website. It is clear now that I was badly mistaken and, had I realised that you were serious, I would never have posted in such a way. I apologise unreservedly for the offence my post has obviously caused. It is clear that I need to be more careful to ensure I understand the meaning behind a post before responding.
Having said that my views on the site have not changed. When I clicked on the link I saw that this was a site selling coffee and making various claims that this was "upgraded" coffee with health benefits not available in other coffee and that the coffee had lower levels of mycotoxins than other coffee. This is at least implying that other coffee suppliers are supplying inferior, unhealthy or less healthy coffee.
I consider these to be outrageous claims that would need serious evidence to support them. I feel that it must be clear in posts such as this that these claims are not supported by TMC and that we are not promoting the site or the products advertised on the site. The live link to the site was removed to ensure we are not improving the search engine ranking of such sites.
double_shot wrote:No one bothered to comment on the information in the second link, which could have been a step in the right direction to establish whether the clams had any merit or not.
I can not speak for others but I make it a rule never to click on links unless they are accompanied by an explanation of what it links to, why it is relevant and what I should take from it. In this case I could see it was a link to the work of Uffe Ravnskov so I did not feel any need to click it. I read his work, including his book, on cholesterol myths and statins over a decade ago and consider it well written, well researched and well argued. His views, however, are still not supported by mainstream medical opinion. I fail to see how this is relevant to the Bulletproof website. From memory Ravnskov argued for the right balance of essential fats and against cutting fats out of the diet but I do not recall him ever advocating consuming the quantities of fats discussed on the website.
double_shot wrote:The point of posting the link to Bulletproof coffee here was purely because of the coffee aspect/recipe, which is apparently "Off Topic" on a coffee based forum (care to explain the logic there?). Are you claiming that Bulletproof coffee isn’t a legitimate coffee recipe?
Unfortunately this was not stated in your original post. The website covers many issues and claims associated with diet, health, fitness, wellbeing, intelligence, coffee and fats. If you include the link to Ravnskov the subjects covered are vast. I would suggest that it is unreasonable to expect anyone to read all of this and the links and supporting evidence unless they have a particular interest in it. Personally I spent about a minute looking at the website and decided that I am not interested in looking further. If you or others believe that we are missing something important then I would suggest that the onus is on you to do the research, provide the evidence and present it in a way that we can assimilate quickly. It may be better to raise topics on specific issues that people may have an interest in such as "Views on adding butter to coffee".