The fact that you mentioned the particle physics field is hilarious, because one of the most influential scientific journalists to start attacking the lipid hyp

The fact that you mentioned the particle physics field is hilarious, because one of the most influential scientific journalists to start attacking the lipid hypothesis was Gary Taubes. Taubes found the lipid story in the course of investigating the "bad science and fraud" that was present in the string theory community within physics. A physicist he was interviewing told Taubes: "If you think the string theory science is terrible, just wait until you see human nutritional science." This prompted a deeper conversation, and when Taubes started digging, he was shocked enough by what he found to write what turned out to be the first of several books on the topic.