Some commentary from the author on its reception so far.
I’ll be interested to see what people like Phil Plait have to say. I suspect they’ll try to pretend it doesn’t exist.
[Thursday-morning update]
Thoughts (and a lot of excerpts) from Judith Curry.
I’m not sure that the fact he’s making a lot of money on the book reduces his chances of getting damages from Mann. I’m sure he would have preferred to have been writing other books, and he needs the money for his legal defense.
I suspect that Professor Mann is going to be very sorry he poked that hornet’s nest. Steve Milloy has been tweeting devastating excerpts.
[Afternoon update]
A review from Anthony Watts.
I’m not inclined to comment much myself until my legal issues are resolved.
As with most of these studies, it’s junk science:
At 8:30 in the morning for four weeks, one group of subjects got oatmeal, another got frosted corn flakes and a third got nothing. And the only group to lose weight was … the group that skipped breakfast. Other trials, too, have similarly contradicted the federal advice, showing that skipping breakfast led to lower weight or no change at all.
Emphasis mine. I guess it didn’t occur to them to have a group that got a healthy breakfast, like bacon and eggs.
But at least they do admit that observational studies are worse than worthless.
In which it validates Bishop Hill’s predictive model.
Heh.
What happens an hour after you drink organic locally grown kale juice?
And yes, it’s satire.
Finally. The feds are on the verge of withdrawing decades of unscientific warnings about eating it. But they’ve still got it wrong:
The finding follows an evolution of thinking among many nutritionists who now believe that, for healthy adults, eating foods high in cholesterol may not significantly affect the level of cholesterol in the blood or increase the risk of heart disease.
The greater danger in this regard, these experts believe, lies not in products such as eggs, shrimp or lobster, which are high in cholesterol, but in too many servings of foods heavy with saturated fats, such as fatty meats, whole milk, and butter.
There is zero scientific evidence that eating saturated fat is a problem. Zero. And yet they persist.
Is it a fake?
It’s over 1500 pages, with a typo in the executive summary. What kind of “pans”? Cast iron? Gold mining?
Some evidence that they can actually improve with age. Interesting.
It’s refreshing to see an AP/NYT story that doesn’t try to blame it on SUVs.