Interesting article. It's fairly convincing that insulin isn't the mechanism leading to weight change on a low-carb diet, but it doesn't seem to explain weight loss or hunger suppression resulting in some of the people who try it. It has convinced me to investigate leptin.
When I tried a no-carb diet for a couple of months a few years ago, I experienced no hunger suppression despite having expected it.
In fact, from the article:
If calories and protein are kept the same, high-carbohydrate meals cause equal or greater satiety than high-fat meals, and equal or less subsequent food intake, despite a much larger insulin response (4, 5, 6, 7).
Here. A number of people here are fans of Taubes' work, and so I thought they would be interested in a well-referenced criticism. Hat tip to Landsknecht.