Fri, Jun-25-10, 13:23
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Senior Member
Posts: 5,160
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Plan: Weston A. Price, GFCF
Stats: 165/133/132
BF:?/12.7%/?
Progress: 97%
Location: Philadelphia
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Originally Posted by deb34
most real life people don't have multi-billion $$ reasons to lie do they? When one person stands to gain nothing by lying about something they experience, the same can't be said of the funded, & granted research community. There's also university tenure and other privileges as well as fame and being published and read by peers on the line for those who admit to data manipulation and fraud.
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Both Taubes and Krieger have something to lose by being "proved" wrong, but I tend to think this guy has more to lose:
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James Krieger is the founder of Weightology, LLC. He has a Master’s degree in Nutrition from the University of Florida and a second Master’s degree in Exercise Science from Washington State University. He is the former research director for a corporate weight management program that treated over 400 people per year, with an average weight loss of 40 pounds in 3 months. His former weight loss clients include the founder of Sylvan Learning Centers and The Little Gym, the vice president of Costco, and a former vice president of MSN. He has given over 75 lectures on weight loss-related topics to physicians, dietitians, and other professionals.
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On the one hand, he's got every reason to want to know the best way to help his clients lose weight. But on the other hand, if he can convince the rest of us that he's the authority on weight loss, he can get a lot more clients. And he has no financial motivation for his clients to keep the weight off after they've lost it, at least not without his continued involvement.
Taubes, in comparison, is someone who was already earning a living as a science journalist, and discovered something that didn't make sense to him. He got very passionate about it, and of course being passionate sells books, but he could have gotten passionate about anything - it didn't really matter to his career what it was.
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