I thought it was a decent interview, although the interviewer seemed particularly dense, as demonstrated by her unquestioning acceptance about the distortions about the Atkins diet being all meat and cheese and about Atkins' death.

Perhaps that obtuseness has led to the odd emphasis on genetics as the primary cause of obesity. Taubes never really made this point in GCBC. Individual differences in the speed and degree of fattening may be genetic, but "insulin drives fat - carbohydrates drive insulin" is the human condition.

Kneebrace - Taubes very specifically and very cleverly deflates the idea that a caloric deficit is necessary to burn fat, as has Eades and others. Check out Eades' blogs on Anthony Colpo.