Gary Taubes

The most obvious difficulty with the notion that a retarded metabolism explains the idiosyncratic nature of fattening is that it never had any evidence to support it.

Believing that your hypothesis must be correct before all the evidence is gathered encourages you to interpret the evidence selectively.

This notion that fattening is the cause and overeating the effect, and not vice versa, also explains why a century of researchers have made so little progress.

We may forget that the science is not adequately described, or ambiguous, even if the public-health policy seems to be set in stone.