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Gary Taubes

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Author of Rethinking Diabetes, The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories

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46 from 4 Dec 2010 to 19 Apr 2026
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now and then (2 in the last year)
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2026 2

  1. Meat Consumption and Dementia? A New Post on Uncertainty Principles
  2. A new post on Uncertainty Principles

2024 9

  1. Substack 11: Life Lessons from the Dearly Departed?
  2. Substack 10: Magic Pill and the Satiety Problem Problem
  3. Substack 9: The science activist problem. What nutrition and climate science have in common.
  4. Substack 8: How do you stop bad scientists? Hope they committed fraud.
  5. Substack 7: Nutrition has a Metaverse Problem
  6. SUBSTACK 6: DO WE CARE WHY MICE GET FAT?
  7. Substack 5: Less Meat, More Plants: A rules of evidence controversy (part 1)
  8. Substack 4: Nutrition Researchers Say It’s the Doctors Who Are Fooling Themselves – Are They?
  9. Rethinking Diabetes.

2023 4

  1. Substack 3. Mind and the Media: Further Lessons from a Negative Trial
  2. Back to Substack: Confounders, Biases, and the Sweetener Science
  3. Writing for Substack: Lessons from the Mind Diet Trial
  4. My new book, “Rethinking Diabetes”, is available for pre-order!

2021 1

  1. The Dissolution of the Nutrition Science Initiative

2019 2

  1. Time Capsule 2: 2005, The Re-Interview with Epidemiology Monitor
  2. Time Capsule 1: 1996, Interview with Epidemiology Monitor

2018 8

  1. Thoughts on a black swan 2 — the Hadza and honey
  2. Thoughts on a Black Swan
  3. Distinguished Speaker Series at Bauman College – Gary Taubes
  4. Bauman College DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES with GARY TAUBES
  5. Science and the media: a pathological relationship?
  6. Big Food and Pharma. Killing for Profit?
  7. A very brief thought about nutritional epidemiology, courtesy of Jordan Peterson
  8. Update on Re-Find Health event in Stockholm / Facebook Live Event

2017 2

  1. Stockholm and London Talks and Dinners, Postponed, a quick note
  2. Vegetable oils, (Francis) Bacon, Bing Crosby, and the American Heart Association

2016 1

  1. Widespread Praise for The Case Against Sugar

2012 7

  1. What would happen if…? Thoughts (and thought experiments) on the calorie issue
  2. The Launch of The Nutrition Science Initiative
  3. Metabolism, Diet, and Disease Conference update and a job posting
  4. Metabolism, Diet, and Disease Conference
  5. Science, Pseudoscience, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Meat
  6. On the greatly-exaggerated demise of the insulin-hypothesis
  7. Updates for 2012

2011 8

  1. Catching up on lost time – the Ancestral Health Symposium, food reward, palatability, insulin signaling and carbohydrates… Part II(e, as in “end” and “enough already”)
  2. Catching up on lost time – the Ancestral Health Symposium, food reward, palatability, insulin signaling and carbohydrates… Part II(d)
  3. Catching up on lost time – the Ancestral Health Symposium, food reward, palatability, insulin signaling and carbohydrates… Part II(c)
  4. Catching up on lost time – the Ancestral Health Symposium, food reward, palatability, insulin signaling and carbohydrates… Part II(b)
  5. Catching up on lost time – the Ancestral Health Symposium, food reward, palatability, insulin signaling and carbohydrates… Part II(a)
  6. Catching up on lost time – the Ancestral Health Symposium, food reward, palatability, insulin signaling and carbohydrates, kettles, pots and other odds and ends (with some philosophy of science as a special added attraction). Part I.
  7. Before sugar, we were talking about cholesterol
  8. The Dose of Intervention and the Land of Dr. Oz

2010 2

  1. Calories, fat or carbohydrates? Why diets work (when they do).
  2. The Inanity of Overeating