I wanted to come back and thank you for the link to Taubes' lecture. I watched the whole thing (on an exercise machine, ironically) and it was definitely worth

I wanted to come back and thank you for the link to Taubes' lecture. I watched the whole thing (on an exercise machine, ironically) and it was definitely worth it. I'd never heard of Taubes, but he's an unusual and formidable character. Whoever heard of a science journalist thinking for himself!? I got a lot out of both his talk and Lustig's and am going to try out what they each say (they both agree and disagree). I don't find it hard to believe that Taubes is the only person who ever bothered to go back and thoroughly read the last hundred years of literature on this subject. Most specialists already "know" what's true, so why would they bother. Besides, it takes a very long time; Taubes spent five years doing it, and that only because he got a huge advance for his book. It's interesting to me that it took someone outside the scientific establishment to do this. Incidentally, there's a clip on youtube of Lustig asking Taubes a question at one of his lectures. Whoever posted it gave it the asinine title of "Lustig yells at Taubes about fructose". He doesn't in the least "yell", he simply asks a question politely (it's clear the two know each other). Kind of a fun crossing of streams.