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Nutrition Science Is Not a Functioning Scientific Discipline
“I don't believe nutrition science is a functioning science. That it lacks many of the characteristics that a functioning science has to have, particularly the sort of critical, rigorous back and forth between scientists where they're attacking each other's ide…”
Nutrition Research Lowered Its Standards Due to the Difficulty of Human Trials
“Very difficult, if not impossible, to do right, and so what the nutrition and public health research communities did is they just lowered their standards for what they would consider reliable knowledge, and this just became sort of, ah, inculcated throughout t…”
The Medical Community Has No Idea How to Solve the Obesity Epidemic
“And, you know, we end up in a situation today where we have, you know, these massive, unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes and related diseases, and the medical public health community has no idea, almost literally no idea what to do about it, and e…”
Taubes Admits His Own Nutrition Science Initiative Did More Harm Than Good
“And if anything, at this point in time, we have done more harm than good.”
Taubes: Butter and Animal Fats Function as Health Foods Over Carbohydrates
“Easiest way to think about it is, I don't eat grains and starches and sugars anymore, because I think they make me fat and unhealthy, and I replace them for the most part with You know, fat animal products, so not good for the animals, but I think it's good fo…”