Unsettled Science

Unsettled Science

Canceling the Science on Saturated Fats

WashPost columnist Tamar Haspel pretends decades of science don't exist

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Nina Teicholz
Jul 02, 2023
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Recently Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel wrote a piece, “Don’t Believe the Backlash: Saturated Fat Actually is Bad for You,” in which she claimed to have ‘settled’ the score on the topic. Particularly striking was a quote from the prominent University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) cardiovascular expert Ronald M. Krauss, a longtime challen…

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