No ... rats have not infested Taubes' batcave replica of the AHS lecture hall. Rather, Gary steps in it yet again with his discussion of the Cafeteria rat study in one of his lame attempts to debunk Stephan Guyenet's works on food reward. The Cafeteria rat study he was referring to is, in my opinion, the most relevant animal study on the etiology of the modern obesity epidemic in Westernized countries. Let's revisit the study with a post of mine: Why We Get Fat ... Lessons from a Cafeteria Rat. In short, you can get "normal" rats to become fat by replacing their usual chow with a high fat chow and/or a high sugar-containing chow. But how do you get them to become really really fat? Feed them modern American junk foods. I'll repost some pertinent graphics from that post here. The so-called "cafeteria rats" were provided ad libitum standard chow along with a rotating selection of three items from the list below:
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