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The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show

The Surprising Reason Why Science is Often Wrong | Gary Taubes

The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Medicine, Science, Health & Fitness, Life Sciences

4.6911 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist, the author of Rethinking Diabetes, The Case for Keto, The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories (published as The Diet Delusion in the UK). Taubes is a former staff writer for Discover and correspondent for the journal Science. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Esquire, and has been included in numerous Best of anthologies, including The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the U.S. National Association of Science Writers. He is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. He did his undergraduate education at Harvard and has a Master’s Degree in engineering from Stanford and in journalism from Columbia.

In this episode we discuss:

  • Why you can’t always trust epidemiological studies.
  • Can diabetes be cured with diet?
  • The reason why today’s science is often incorrect.
  • How did we get dietary guidelines so wrong?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dr. Gabriel Lyon Show, where I believe a healthy world is based on transparent

0:08.5

conversations.

0:14.6

In this episode of the Dr. Gabriel Lion Show, I sit down with a very controversial figure

0:20.2

in health and nutrition. Gary

0:23.6

Dobbs. He's an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the nonprofit

0:29.2

Nutrition Science Initiative. He is the author of Rethinking Diabetes, The Case Against Sugar,

0:36.4

Why We Get Fat, and What to do about it, and the famous

0:40.1

or infamous, good calories, bad calories. Now, I was really excited to have Gary on the show,

0:47.1

and here's why. It takes a lot to challenge the narrative, and that's exactly what he's done. He has

0:52.8

won numerous awards for his

0:54.5

journalism. Taubs graduated from Harvard, has a degree in physics, has a degree in engineering from

1:01.2

Stanford, and journalism from Columbia University. A very interesting gentleman and has a lot to

1:07.9

say. In this episode, we talk about what's wrong

1:11.3

with the reporting of health sciences and nutrition?

1:14.3

What is the benefit of being a healthy skeptic?

1:17.4

The past and future of obesity,

1:19.9

and so much more.

1:22.2

As always, if you enjoy this episode,

1:24.3

please share it, leave a review.

1:26.8

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1:29.4

are looking for a great community, please join ours. You will find that information in the show

1:34.5

notes below. And on my website, there is a new membership available now, the Forever Strong community.

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