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Microbiome Nonsense: response to “Chowing Down On Meat”

Response to “Chowing Down On Meat” As the claim that animal protein and saturated fat is unhealthy becomes less and less tenable, those who have the intuition that animal-based nutrition must be bad for you are looking elsewhere. There was great excitement at the end of 2014 about a study posted in Nature demonstrating the […]

Similarities between germ-free mice and ketogenic humans

Tracing a chain of ideas Sometimes the assumptions that scientists start with about what is “good”, “healthy”, or “normal” can cause them to interpret results in a completely different way than someone starting with different assumptions would have. Then, the resulting conclusions become the assumptions in the next round of interpretation, leading to a chain […]