The problem is that the vast majority of researchers and medical personnel DO consider it to be settled, and therefore not debatable.

Almost all of the research is being done based on what they consider to be settled dietary truth - they expect the accepted results, and for the most part the studies are designed (whether intentionally or unintentionally) in such a way that they'll get the results they expect.

This is why when pitting LC against LF, the LC arm of the study usually involves 150-200 g carbs, which is still moderately high carb, with fats and proteins only increased slightly.

Mostly what they're really looking for is small nuances between insignificant changes in diet, the results of which are then blown up to demonize LC and validate LF.

Yes, there are LC researchers out there -the problem is that there's so few that we could probably name every single one of them on here in one breath. There's far more funding to do the LF friendly research, and a list of researchers a mile long doing LF biased research.