Turns out it is all bullshit anyway. The Mediterranean and Japanese diet fads were based off reported life expectancy figures. It turns out that the longer life expectancy is due to poor government records and widespread pension fraud in these areas. A Nobel prize was awarded for uncovering these issues. A number of other studies that purported that olive oil was key to a healthy heart were later retracted for bad science.

That doesn’t apply to all engineering. In ChE, it’ll literally blow up later…

The issue with engineering is that if you don’t solve it efficiently and correctly enough, it’ll blow up later.

Could have simply been looking after an elderly parent.