Ancel Keys and Cherry Picking: Can We Please Get This One Thing Right?

Note: this content originally appeared in our June 2014 newsletter. More up-to-date research may be available, but the message is still the same!

Opinions about nutrition are varied and passionately held. Some of us are vegans and some of us are carnivores but we all feel we have well-informed views. That probably won’t change anytime soon. But regardless of our views we should be able to agree on facts when they are obvious. We should also agree that it’s wrong to perpetuate false attacks on an innocent individual. None of us should intentionally bear false witness against anyone, yet that’s what we see done over and over against a famous researcher named Ancel Keys.

Search his name and see what is said about him. The Authority Nutrition” guy

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