When what we don’t know is more important than what we do. Wrestling with conflict and controversy in science, medicine, health and nutrition.
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Blah Health Journalism: Meat, Sauerkraut and Politics Edition.
What's it take to get the traditional media (or at least The New York Times) to understand the appeal of unconventional diets?
Question of the day: Why do people eat fad diets?
Karl-Anthony Towns, Food Noise, and Why GLP-1 Drugs Quiet the Brain
The Liver?! What's the liver got to do with it?
Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…
Shouldn’t Giving Birth Be (Reasonably) Easy?
The Obstetrical Dilemma. What really makes human childbirth so hard?
The problem did not lie in any lack of clues. The problem lay in distinguishing the few clues that led in the right direction from all those that led in the wrong directi...
"Bad Air" or the Tobacco Industry Playbook?
Which is the better metaphor for the controversy over ultra-processed foods?
First, the necessary follow-up to my last post: That was a brief note about the National Institutes of Health Scientific Freedom lecture that I presented on June...
"The dead end of the energetics view"
Regrettably, I do not have my usual essay this week.
Since my last post, I have been working obsessively on my slides for a lecture I gave on Friday at the National Institutes of Health. The subject was the history of scientific thinking...
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Investigative science and health journalist, author of Rethinking Diabetes (2024), The Case for Keto (2020), The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat (2011), and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK.
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