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Old Mon, Jun-09-14, 08:44
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Originally Posted by aj_cohn
With plenty of examples, he asserted that the author plagiarized Taubes' GCBC extensively. He also goes on to cite evidence that both Taubes and Teicholz misrepresented some of the evidence they both cite.

It's a well-thought out critique and worth reading.


She plagiarizes Taubes? I'm just now reading the chapter on LC and in it is a section (pages 311-315) called Gary Taubes and "The Big Fat Lie". On page 315, she says "Even so, whatever scientific progress has been made toward our greater understanding of carbohydrates generally in recent years has clearly been due to Taubes' work. "This has been his most important contribution t the filed," says Ronald M Krauss, an influential nutrition expert and the director of research at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute. For a journalist, it was an astonishing coup in the world of science. In 2013, Taubes became one of the rare journalists to write a peer-reviewed article for the highly respected scientific publication, the British Medical Journal. Yet given the stranglehold that Keys's ideas have held on nutrition researchers for so many decades, it is perhaps inevitable that an alternative hypothesis had to come from an outsider."

In one of her many footnotes, she also mentions NuSi and that experiments are underway to determine whether carbohydrates are uniquely fattening.

I will read the critique, but plagiarism is not something she is guilty of with regard to Taubes. Yes, she and Taubes see eye to eye, but she definitely acknowledges what he has done for the field of LC studies.
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