Yes, the claims of near blindedness by belief in "low fat" and "High
Cholesterol" seem fantastic.

But then, similar claims are being made by people who are medically
qualified, such as Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, Dr. Malcolm Kendrick and several
others.

There is the whole story of refusal to consider the health effects of
TransFats and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils which went on for 50
years until it was finally determined that these things weren't safe in
any quantity. Dr. Mary Enig told the story of how political an
unscientific that whole thing was.

The major financial benificiaries of the "Saturated Fat is Bad" group
were the vegetable oil industry participants. They also benefited
greatly from TransFats.

Of course, there are the Diet Gurus like Drs. Eades and Atkins and a few
more who also advocated that the official position of the "Authorities"
had holes in it.

So, on reflection, it doesn't seem as if there is all that much that
qualified people hadn't already begun to point out in publications that
could be read and verified.

The situation is unsatisfactory.

Even if Taubes has done a good job of uncovering decades of professional
bias (excluding ideas counter to those of "Authority"), then he will
still be accused of being a muckracker and "Unauthorative".

Perhaps there are times when you have to do it, even if you know that
the effort is futile.

Food is industrial now. We have had a new form of industrial revolution
- and manufactured food including vast oceans of plants as precursors to
food chemistry and food manufacturing.

We have never proven that this food industry is safe, and at least for
TransFats, we have proven that this food industry was unsafe.

We are the experimental animals..... we are the long term test animals.