Chewing, And Choking, On False (Nutritional) Equivalence

The lead story of the moment in Medpage Today positions the conclusions of a multidisciplinary panel of prominent nutrition researchers spelled out in exacting detail across 24 pages in Circulation- as the intellectual equivalent of the opinion of one journalist whose entire career and following are based on defending the idea that carbohydrate, and insulin responses to it, are the one and only root of all dietary evil. Such false equivalence is gasoline on the fire of post-truth alternative facts, and perpetual confusion. Contrary to the views expressed by the author in Medpage Today (and their various affiliated publications promoting the same item), the article in Circulation neither gilds the lily, nor mistakes dross for gold. The highly qualified panel readily noted limitations to the literature they reviewed, but reached reliable conclusions based on the overall weight of evidence. Their findings were entirely concordant with recent research they did not cite, by diverse authors, many decisively NOT known for a bias in favor of their conclusions, notably this group, and this group, as well as this group which does include some known partisans. In my concerned opinion, and with all due respect to my friends at Medpage Today (and yes, I do, indeed, have actual friends there), I think by propagating the public perception of equivalence between most of the most accomplished people in nutrition and one-journalist-defending-the-theory-on-which-he-has-based-his-career, Med...
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