Experimenting on yourself with replacing food with shakes is one thing. I find that an interesting project, and I'm sure many others did as well.

On the other hand, selling this stuff with claims like, "Soylent is perfectly balanced and optimized for your body and lifestyle, meaning it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition," is another thing completely. It sounds like a total scam, especially since they don't even say what's in it.

It changed from one guy experimenting with his own body and blogging about it to making a sales pitch with ridiculous claims that have no backing.

> It's interesting to see everything went from supportive on soylent to very negative after they published this campaign. I wonder what has changed?

There's a pretty big difference between "I'm trying this new nutritional approach out for myself" and "without any serious testing, I am trying to get investors to sell this nutritional approach to the public".

I suspect the difference you observe in responses is tied to the that difference.

If the founder came out and said, "look ive been trying this for months and its great.. now you can try it with me...", that would be fine. But I agree that some of these claims are too much for something that is so unproven.

What?? Some people have been negative about soylent from the very first posts.