In a recent post, following up on discussion of Grey & Kipnis as in the Fasting Insulin & Weight Loss post, I noted that G&K was but one study (of many) where calories were controlled that demonstrated definitively that it was calories, and only calories, and not carbohydrates or any hormonal effect thereof, that determined weight loss/stability.
Taubes made the slanderous claim on his blog:
... the value of controlling variables in a scientific experiment is something that a reasonably well-educated child supposedly understands. And what I want to know is why don’t nutritionists understand it and those researchers out there doing diet trials and studying obesity and weight regulation. Because their failure to do so — and I would argue that it may be a willful failure — has led to what may be another of the great misconceptions in modern nutrition research.
I ended my post with the following:
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