In the years after I published Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), I would frequently get emails from readers saying, in effect, “now that you’ve taken on nutrition science, would you look into climate change?”
I never did and, I would reply, I almost assuredly never would. That’s still true, but this week I took the opportunity to point out a phenomenon the two research disciplines share and it’s a worrisome one.
The scientist activist problem
