this whole post hinges on how one defines mainstream. I've heard "Eat Less Exercise More" hundreds of times from tons of people. All the time. Taubes is attacking "nutrition experts" and the people who make the food pyramid, not elite obesity researchers.

Once you start veering off into a shitty tangent about meanies maybe you need to reconsider just how much you want to attack Taubes vs how much you want to be useful or informative. This series of articles sucks and you should be ashamed. You're spending your time attributing extrapolated morals to Taubes and critiquing his critique of what other people say instead of refuting or providing any scientific input of your own. I get that you don't like his popsci "I'm a rebel" style and that it's bad for analyzing the truth of his statements but that should've taken at most 1 post to say.