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167. Gary Taubes — The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating

The Michael Shermer Show

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Do You Know if You're Taking a Drug?

There's a lot of anecdote thinking here that you would think scientists would not trust. But then there's something like the natural experiment method, say, that political scientists use. One of the arguments i make in the case for quito is that people who are metabolically disturbed. They're getting fat er. Their blood sugar's getting out of control. And when those women get pregnant, they're going to pass it on their kids. So there's so many different issues that get inflated into these simplistic answers.

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