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What you appear to be aggressively declining to understand, despite two prior commenters clearly explaining it--including the one that you're responding to here
by neild 16y ago
What you appear to be aggressively declining to understand, despite two prior commenters clearly explaining it--including the one that you're responding to here--is that Taubes does not argue that 20 extra calories a day makes a person fat. He argues the precise opposite, in fact, at great length and in some detail.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoWhat you appear to be aggressively declining to understand is that I'm arguing that Taube's straw man is misleading. I'm not claiming his main thesis is wrong, I couldn't even figure out from the blog post what that thesis is. He used a misleading straw man: "Look, modern medical science says only 20 cals a day makes you obese! I'll repeat 20 cals/day many times, and tell you it's just a couple of gulps of beer. I'll never mention the other 100-350 cals/day (depending on year) once in 3000 words. Only 20 cals/day must be wrong, go read my book to learn the truth! Now for a made up dialogue between myself and a personified straw man!" Yes, technically he made no untrue claims. He just deliberately failed to mention that the straw man has a good point: 7.5 sticks of bacon/day will make you fat while 7.0 sticks of bacon will only keep you fat once you are already fat.