he Science Is Settled: Carbs Are Causing Global Warming
Of course Dr. Atkins had been saying essentially the same thing for 30 years before Taubes wrote his article for the NYT. But Dr. Atkins was considered an outsider in the AMA community. But Dr. Robert Atkins had the last laugh; looks like he was right about the ill effects of sugar and carbs all along. But since “good carb” science was settled, and he wasn’t deferential to the rest of the medical community that disagreed with him and because he wasn’t always polite he was ridiculed and viciously attacked personally. His nutrition plan was referred to as a “fad diet” and called “dangerous.”...Science writer Gary Taubes has a knack for subverting conventional wisdom. Sixteen years ago, he published a groundbreaking feature article in The New York Times Magazine arguing that decades' worth of government-approved nutritional advice was flat-out wrong, ideologically motivated, and contributing to rising rates of obesity and diabetes. Traditional dieting guidance attacking fatty food and praising carbohydrates, he wrote, was based on "a big fat lie." – The Man Who Hated Carbs Before It Was Cool
...It started when I read an editorial in my local paper on Saturday that laid out this “fact:”
First of all, debate is NEVER closed in the scientific community.…the debate about whether climate change exists, and whether humans are causing it, has been closed in the scientific community for years — at least 97 percent of scientists say it does exist and we are causing it, according to a 2016 examination of nearly 12,000 research papers.
Idiot.
Science is an open proposition; things are assumed to be true until they are proven not to be.
Scientific inquiry is a continuous process.
Remember, at one time 99% of nutritionists thought this food pyramid was correct.
Until they decided it was upside down.
Alas, after a generation of brainwashing it’s hard to convince people to the contrary.
Gary Taube, discussing that issue:...
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