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I think it’d be useful to step back for a minute, and talk about the logic of what Taubes says in Good Calories, Bad Calories. It’s nothing shocking or amazing, but there are a few small insights. (more…)

…mathematics is only a tool, though an immensely powerful one. No equations, however impressive and complex, can arrive at the truth if the initial assumptions are incorrect. It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future, 7, 1962