Gary Taubes

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for years. We read about scientific misconduct regularly. Fraud is news. Institutions investigate it. The media covers it. But garden-variety bad science is ...

https://garytaubes.com/substack-8-how-do-you-stop-bad-scientists-hope-they-committed-fraud/

When nutritional epidemiologists conclude (as they always do) that some item of our diet or lifestyle associates with chronic disease, it’s inevitably news. Not so when methodologists point out...

https://garytaubes.com/substack-7-nutrition-has-a-metaverse-problem/

by GT When Nina Teicholz and I were discussing working together on a Substack newsletter, I suggested a name for it that I’d always joked I’d someday use: “Let’s Pretend This Is Science�...

https://garytaubes.com/substack-6-do-we-care-why-mice-get-fat/

That a plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat is the nutritional equivalent of common sense. We’ve been told it’s the one thing on which nutritionists can always agree. Journalists tre...

https://garytaubes.com/substack-5-less-meat-more-plants-a-rule-of-evidence-controversy-part-1/

The very controversial history surrounding dietary therapy for obesity and diabetes comes down to one consistent and very obvious conflict. Physicians, like the UK’s David Unwin in his recent a...

https://garytaubes.com/substack-4-nutrition-researchers-say-its-the-doctors-who-are-fooling-themselves-are-they/

A new book and a Q&A on Substack The numbers are hard to ignore. One in every four dollars spent on healthcare in the United States goes to treating diabetes and its complications. The cost to so...

https://garytaubes.com/rethinking-diabetes/

A common theme in nutrition science: Nothing seems to change. The healthy diet narratives we hear today are remarkably similar to those 50 and 60 years ago when governments and health association...

https://garytaubes.com/substack-3-mind-and-the-media-further-lessons-from-a-negative-trial/

A recent article in the International Journal of Obesity suggests that artificial sweeteners are the last thing you might want to use to help with weight control. The research turns out to be ano...

https://garytaubes.com/back-to-substack-confounders-biases-and-the-sweetener-science/

I’ve wanted to start writing on Substack for a while now. I’ve been looking for a timely subject that worked well as a first column. In short, it would be suitably important and interesting e...

https://garytaubes.com/writing-for-substack-lessons-from-the-mind-diet-trial/

Until insulin’s discovery in 1921, the only effective therapy for diabetes was dietary. The standard of care for over a century had been the “animal diet” — fatty meat and green vegetable...

https://garytaubes.com/my-new-book-rethinking-diabetes-is-available-for-pre-order/