by GT When Nina Teicholz and I were discussing working together on a Substack newsletter, I suggested a name for it that I’d always joked I’d someday use: “Let’s Pretend This Is Science….” Let’s just say, wiser heads prevailed. Still, that’s the phrase that comes to mind when I write about some of the research in…
Substack 5: Less Meat, More Plants: A rules of evidence controversy (part 1)
That a plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat is the nutritional equivalent of common sense. We’ve been told it’s the one thing on which nutritionists can always agree. Journalists treat it as dogma. But where’s the evidence? When a group of researchers decided to apply the same methodology to nutrition that is accepted…
Substack 4: Nutrition Researchers Say It’s the Doctors Who Are Fooling Themselves – Are They?
The very controversial history surrounding dietary therapy for obesity and diabetes comes down to one consistent and very obvious conflict. Physicians, like the UK’s David Unwin in his recent article, insist that they know better how to successfully treat their patients than the academic nutritionists and epidemiologists in their Ivy Towers. The physicians have argued…