L*. Ron Rosedale's Church of Scikrispology
Creating a chasm between science and medicine.
Jimmy's original data dump "debate" over safe starches seems to have taken on a little life of its own of late. For many of us it merely served to further draw the curtain back to reveal the lack of critical thinking in LLVLClue land. But it also seems to have ignited a resurgence of another LC guru: Dr. Ron Rosedale. Rosedale hogged the most "cyber ink" in Jimmy's post, and also posted advanced snippets on his Facebook page.
If the Taubesian-led LLVLC circle seems cultish, you really gotta get a load of Rosedale. After all, Taubes may surely be enjoying his supreme guru status, but he didn't cultivate it as a populist movement (although he does have delusions of grandeur thinking if only all these idjuts in research and medicine would just listen to him). Rosedale, on the other hand, sees himself as a visionary leader of a movement. I had heard of Rosedale, and knew something about him and leptin. There was a thread or two about him and his book on Jimmy's forum but not much of a following even there. When I went to Rosedale's FB page, the first thing that struck me was the imagery. What's with the televangelist schtick? Or is that just me noticing this? Read more »
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