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Journal Entry
on March 27, 2012
Running a Cholesterol Confusionist Gauntlet, Part 5 – The Tokelauans, the Samburu, and the Masai Again
Our attention now turns to the Tokelauans and the Pukapukans.
Anthony Colpo says I don’t want you to know about them, presumably because he thinks something about their health an ...
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Journal Entry
on March 25, 2012
Primitive Nutrition 29:
The Masai Model, Part I
The Masai tribe of east Africa are a favorite model for the primitive nutrition crowd. It seems their attention is drawn to them by two publications.
The first is again Weston Price's book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Price related ...
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on January 12, 2013
28 Ancestral Cholesterol 2
I’ll start my review of the lipid scores of hunter gatherers by looking at what a Paleo broscholar might consider the most ancient living populations, the ones that could be said to be truest to the roots we all share, and they are the Hadza, the !Kung, and th ...
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on January 12, 2013
9 The Journalist Gary Taubes 9: Anomaly Hunter 3
Gary Taubes hatched another anomaly-packed sentence on page 25 of Good Calories, Bad Calories , which you see in the lower half of your screen. With these examples, he argues that Ancel Keys and the other diet-heart pioneers demonstrated a lack ...
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Journal Entry
on March 27, 2012
Response to Denise Minger, Part 2:
Not Benefiting from Hindsight
Minger thinks Yerushalmy and Hilleboe were awesome. She says by going over their paper, she and her readers looked at these issues more deeply than Keys did. The cholesterol deniers are in perpetual admiration of their own clever ...
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Journal Entry
on March 25, 2012
Primitive Nutrition 27:
The Eskimo Model, Part I
Historical Eskimos, with their blubbery, meaty diets, are favorites of modern day cavemen and low carb promoters.
Weston Price. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
Weston Price presented them as one of his models of nutritional wisdom. T ...
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Journal Entry
on March 27, 2012
Anthony Colpo’s Confusionist Mind, Part 1
I can’t tell you how strange it is to wake up one day and see yourself attacked in a blog like this. It’s not just that it’s strange to be attacked. I’m anonymous, after all, so it’s not like I took this personally. B ...
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on April 13, 2014
30 Meat, Brains, and Bugs
Mark Sisson starts his book by opening up a can of paleologic whoop-ass on the science-based conventional wisdom. Those silly CW-believers say that saturated fat is a heart disease risk factor. (Well, actually they don’t. Scientists say excessive saturated fa ...
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Journal Entry
on March 27, 2012
Response to Denise Minger,
Part 3: Cherry Picking
Denise Minger, in her professed effort to tell the truth about Ancel Keys and lay out the facts as objectively as possible, repeatedly accused him of cherry-picking.
Therefore she is basically accusing him of dishonesty. He selected examples t ...
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Journal Entry
on March 27, 2012
Running a Cholesterol Confusionist Gauntlet, Part 10 – Drug-Fueled Delusions
Cholesterol confusionists comb the literature on the effects of drugs looking for anomalies that they can take out of context and blow out of proportion. Here’s an example of how this works.
On the left, ...