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Taubes shows those simple rules don't work (so many people have difficulty loosing weight) because the causality is backwards.

Why do you think "mysteriously" is part of the definition of auto-immune? If we don't know what causes a particular auto-immune response doesn't make it not auto-immune.

CORS is more secure than JSONP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing

But "auto-immune disorder" does describe whats happening. What most doctors can't say is what causes that: so they can't say more than "dumb luck". One explanation I've heard is le…

I need this. Maybe I wasn't precise about "glucose regulation", but obviously it doesn't happen if you don't have insulin. I would agree that eating can't cure it, but it can help.…

It's a disorder of glucose regulation, so minimizing carbs and maximizing fat (because protein also leads to glucose), can help a lot. Eat more animals and vegetables, less grains.…

I agree. I went Paleo 2 years ago and it made blood sugar much easier to manage.

Did you consider BrowserId? I think this has a lot of advantages over OpenId or various proprietary accounts. https://browserid.org/

Both of your answers ask for more government control. Consider the government is a huge concentration of power, so many will want to corrupt it. Our goal should be to reduce the po…

It's complex and there are a lot of characters to follow, but many of them are developed very well - which is rare on TV and wonderful to see.

Yes, that's better than a lynch mob with no rule of law.

The difference is using large amounts of other peoples' money.

My first thought on reading Rowe's speech was this might be a symptom of public education itself. Do-gooders using other people's money to push their agenda (higher education is th…

There is evidence that people have followed the advice of the "experts" in the past 4 decades: eat low fat, more carbs, industrial oils and margarine. The big problem is the expert…

Bacon already tastes as good as it's going to get! (No, this is not sarcasm.)

I think the "not too much" is also redundant. If you eat bacon and eggs, your hunger will tell you when to stop. It's the non-food (sugar and grains) that mess up our hunger signal…

> The capacity to observe reality? That is a very strong statement. My point is you haven't proven it. I certainly sympathize with your situation, but neither that nor your evidenc…

You've observed that when some people get to force others to their will, that works best? And when was the free market tried consistently and failed? We have a mixed economy in the…

The foods our ancestors ate don't exactly exist anymore. Animals are smaller and we eat fewer wild ones. Fruit is sweeter. I'm not big into supplements, but I do recognize it's har…

Wait, I thought your point was that the 20 cals (10, whatever, a small number) was a straw man and it's 7 strips of bacon that causes overweight. My point is you're misinterpreting…

No, in the graph, the green line is pulling the red line up - this is exactly what Taubes says is wrong because the delta is so small. The blue line is a red herring because that's…

Taubes is referring to the 20 grams above maintenance of current weight (difference between red and green lines in your graph), not the grams above what ideal weight would require.…