Is a New Hypothesis in the Works?

I have to admit, my eyes glaze over reading most of what Gary Taubes has to offer these days.  His latest seemed so much more of the same old same old.  Old paradigm, new paradigm ... research will never move forward until they embrace the new paradigm.  Thousands of scientists can't be right when Gary Taubes knows they're wrong.  

But Taubes tucked something new into his latest post that I missed on the first read:

In this paradigm, meals stimulate hormonal responses—insulin, in particular, either in the short term (glucose) or the long term (fructose)— and this in turn directly influences both the storage of fat and the oxidation of fatty acids elsewhere in the body.

In recent lectures Gary has been turning his ire towards fructose/sugar as the ultimate cause of obesity.   He has in the past tried to explain the Japanese away by claiming they eat very little sugar.  I suppose compared to the SAD this is true, but they do eat sugar (and they don't eat brown rice either, but can't we cut Taubes some slack when he makes stuff up?  Swallow one for the cause!)   Myself and others have pointed out the problem with this and  TWICHOO -- that being that fructose does not stimulate an insulin response.  Therefore it does not fit into TWICHOO as stated in  GCBC or  WWGF .   Is he about to change his tune a bit by introducing some long term influence of fructose on insulin behavior?  His toothpick of a fork tine is bent so badly at this point he's gotta fashion something to do his cherry picking with.  Only to do that, he'll have to do some more cherry picking.  

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