
Unfortunately he doesn't follow his own advice. ".if the initial observations are incorrect or incomplete, then we will distort what it is we're trying to explain." "Critical to the success of any scientific enterprise is the ability to make accurate and unbiased observations."

Taubes opens the chapter with this sentence: He does this through a combination of logical fallacies, selective quotation of out-dated scientific data, and leaving out existing data that conflicts with his statements.

In this chapter, Taubes begins to create a mystery that doesn't actually exist. In my last post on Gary Taubes and his book Good Calories, Bad Calories, I stated that I would do a chapter-by-chapter critique of the book, starting with Chapter 14, "The Mythology of Obesity".
