And yet there are multiple cogent (though possibly/probably specious) comments already about the evils of sugar with not so much as a nod to the caffeine. It's an apt illustration of the pseudo-scientific and faddish stuff that proliferates about diet, fitness, and mental health even on otherwise intelligent forums online.

A computing parallel would be "All this bloatware is killing my machine. It's so bad I have to regularly run [well-known heinous, performance-killing malware] to fix it."

I honestly wouldn't be that surprised to see a follow-up post later where the author reveals that he was checking to see whether this would exactly happen.

It's pretty frustrating to watch.