Telling Time by the Second Hand: By emphasizing challenges to conventional wisdom, the popular press distorts how science really works.
With his enormous impact on the landscape of nutritional awareness, it's easy to forget that Gary Taubes was an award-winning science writer for several years before he starting exploding myths about fat -- or about salt, for that matter.
Gearing up for the 2018 CrossFit Health Conference to be held in Madison, Wisconsin at the end of July, Gary sent out one of his rare newsletters, and it contained this link to (as well as the text of) an article published in the MIT Technology Review in 1998.
The article, he writes, came to his mind because his upcoming talk is about “the pathology of science (i.e., the ‘science of things that aren’t so’).”
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