Yep. Funding. The nutritional science community is generally weak on data, because humans are expensive to study. This has led to prominent scientists cherry

Yep. Funding. The nutritional science community is generally weak on data, because humans are expensive to study. This has led to prominent scientists cherry picking bad data and using correlation to back up shitty hypotheses. The Dr. Hall quoted in the article is a classic example of this. Attacking the study wherever he can, because it demonstrates how crappy his lifetime of low fat diet studies actually are.