You guys are focusing on the wrong issue here. It's not who says what, it's what is being said. That people misreport their calorie intake is a fact that has been reproduced many times by different scientists in different parts of the world. Nothing in that article and nothing in Taubes's book is an original contribution by Krieger and Taubes. They are only reporting data collected by someone else. You should listen to their arguments and decide who makes more sense to you. It doesn't matter who they are. If Hitler believed in low-carb, it wouldn't make low-carb bad.


The problem is that people don't just rely anecdotes. They select which anecdotes they will post about according to their own biases. And they don't just report what happened. They post their interpretation of what happened, which may be totally wrong. For instance, they say that eating strawberries give them cravings instead of posting everything they ate and when they ate and when they felt cravings so you can draw your own conclusions.