I see two related reasons for the outcry against this study from low carb advocates (hereafter LCAs). First, the authors have implicated "low carbohydrate diets", when they have not studied any carb intake remotely like low carb diets (LCD). This matters, because 1/
I think @AlanLevinovitz said it best. To paraphrase: if only people would apply the same level of rigor in their analysis of studies they like as those they dislike
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Smug sanctimonious straw manning. Many of us do just that.
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It is also worth noting that the media goes crazy about virtually every minor correlation found in epidemiology, I have a whole blog about it. Inferring bad intent in this case would be to ignore the thousands of ridiculous articles published each day on science
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