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What would happen if…? Thoughts (and thought experiments) on the calorie issue 20 Nov 2012 | 01:26 am
Thought experiments are devices of the imagination used to investigate the nature of things…. The primary philosophical challenge of thought experiments is simple: How can we learn about reality (if w...
The Launch of The Nutrition Science Initiative 12 Sep 2012 | 07:24 pm
This morning, at 9am Eastern Time, we officially launched The Nutrition Science Initiative — NuSI (pronounced “new see”). NuSI is a non-profit organization, technically a 501(c)(3). Its purpose is to...
Metabolism, Diet, and Disease Conference update and a job posting 17 Aug 2012 | 01:02 am
I promised in my last post — yes, far too long ago — that I would give an update on the Metabolism, Diet and Disease Conference, which was held at the end of May in Washington, DC. As the months pa...
Metabolism, Diet, and Disease Conference 30 May 2012 | 02:27 am
Well, it’s Back to the Better-Late-Than-Never… There’s an interesting conference starting Tuesday the 29th in Washington – today –and I should have written about it months ago. It’s the Metabolism, ...
Metabolism, Diet, and Disease Conference 29 May 2012 | 07:27 pm
Well, it’s Back to the Better-Late-Than-Never… There’s an interesting conference starting Tuesday the 29th in Washington – today –and I should have written about it months ago. It’s the Metabolism, ...
Science, Pseudoscience, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Meat 15 Mar 2012 | 02:08 pm
I’m writing this post with a little more haste than is my wont. I’ve received dozens of e-mails asking me to comment on the recent news — ala the the New York Times — that meat-eating apparently ca...
Science, Pseudoscience, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Meat 15 Mar 2012 | 06:08 am
I’m writing this post with a little more haste than is my wont. I’ve received dozens of e-mails asking me to comment on the recent news — ala the the New York Times — that meat-eating apparently ca...
On the greatly-exaggerated demise of the insulin-hypothesis 7 Feb 2012 | 09:51 am
Last week, I tweeted a New England Journal of Medicine image challenge, part of the journal’s continuing education program for physicians. I suggested that it might be a source of comfort to those who...
On the greatly-exaggerated demise of the insulin-hypothesis 7 Feb 2012 | 03:51 am
Last week, I tweeted a New England Journal of Medicine image challenge, part of the journal’s continuing education program for physicians. I suggested that it might be a source of comfort to those who...
Updates for 2012 22 Jan 2012 | 09:47 am
Checking in after a long absence (working too hard, and blogging too little), I have news and updates for 2012. The first order of business is a letter to the editor of the New York Times in respo...
