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Anthony replies:
What do I think of Taubes?
I think a lot of what he writes nowadays is complete and utter nonsense. And that’s putting it nicely.
It wasn’t always that way. He wrote a terrific article in 2001 that appeared in Time magazine titled “The Soft Science of Dietary Fat”. The story was a revealing expose of the behind the scenes political manoeuvring that was instrumental in winning acceptance for the nonsensical low-fat/anti-cholesterol paradigm. In writing the article, Taubes relied on his true talent – investigative journalism. To the best of my knowledge, no-one has ever questioned the veracity of the claims or quoted comments in the Time article, and I had no qualms about citing it in my book The Great Cholesterol Con.
Things then went pear-shaped in a big way. Like millions of others, Taubes picked up a copy of Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution and was thoroughly swayed by the late doctor’s infomercial-like claims for low-carb nutrition. [etc]