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Whenever low carb gets popular, industry is threatened and spins up some FUD as illustrated in this talk 'Undoing Atkins: A Cautionary Tale' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIegMp5cWBY

Keto sub is really growing fast, up 400k this year http://redditmetrics.com/r/keto

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> Keto sub is really growing fast

"We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers." - Daniel Kahneman

So no subs that are popular are based on fact?

"A lot of people believing something does not make it true" is not equivalent to "A lot of people believing something makes it untrue."

Why would the industry feel threatened?

And this is Taubes's initiative - it's an attempt to prove his insulin hypothesis. It's his doing.

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