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Knowledge depreciates, so it is clarifying to add time explicitly: I thought this knowledge would set me apart... Forever? That seems over-optimistic for all occupations in all era…

But the reader escaped! :-)

Robert Redford's character in _Three Days of the Condor_ gets asked what he does for a living. "I read." Has always seemed to be the ideal job. :-)

True -- trans fat is 5-10% of beef fat [1] BUT "a lot" is not the standard when it comes to trans fat. The NEJM article makes the point that trans fat is damaging even in small qua…

The scariest part of this well-reasoned piece is the amount of trans fat in beef tallow. Trans fat is unbelievably destructive. A review in the New England Journal of Medicine 20 y…