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The scientist activist problem

What nutrition and climate science have in common

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May 14, 2024
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Today’s post is about the problem of activist science in climate change and nutrition. First, though, as screenwriters like to say, the back story:

In 2008, six months after the publication of my first book on nutrition science, Good Calories, Bad Calories, I gave a lecture on the subject at a hospital in Maine. Upon realizing I had nothing to read for m…

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