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As I'll discuss in the next post, it's good advice. And contrary to what Taubes wants you to think, perfectly compatible with recognizing that the causes of obesity are complicated.
The views Taubes attributes to "nutrition experts" are not only not the views of elite obesity researchers, they're not the views of the FDA, Surgeon General, or anyone else he attributes them to.
It's not his style I don't like. It's the substantive and wildly false claims he's making.
Some people take Taubes very seriously as a source of scientific information about nutrition, and unless it were a very long post, those people wouldn't have been satisfied.
This is the crux of the matter, and quite a few people disagree with it very strongly. In fact, it's downright offensive.
Those people aren't here. All of the ad hominems against Gary Taubes are wasted on this audience.
Have you not be reading the comments for the last four posts here? They are.
Those people don't care about the length of the attack. To quote Eliezers assessment: "this whole series is simply failing to find a smoking gun of Taubes saying something false".
Quantity doesn't help as a substitute for quality.