I've never really considered Taubes as anything more than a writer/journalist and I appreciated the obviously herculean effort writing something like Good Calor

I've never really considered Taubes as anything more than a writer/journalist and I appreciated the obviously herculean effort writing something like Good Calories, Bad Calories must have required. If he poorly ran poorly designed trials of his own with NuSI, it wouldn't remotely surprise me. It's not, to my understanding, his wheelhouse. From what I recall of Good Calories, Bad Calories (it's been quite a few years now), the thing wasn't even making new claims by the author. It dryly stated the purported science and history surrounding claims that weren't even his own. And it was all thoroughly backed with citations.