Is Self-Reported Diet Data Good Enough for Nutrition Science?
Southwest Airlines is consistently rated as serving good food on their flights, yet they don’t serve food at all. Can we trust diet data if people don’t know if they even ate? This amusing anecdote was...
View ArticleFood Fortification in a Changing Environment
Over the last century, food fortification has been one of the great public health successes in nutrition, dramatically reducing the risk for diseases like pellagra, rickets, and goiter. But as Dr....
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Experimental Biology 2014 Tweet Analysis #xbio
Like last year, I collected all tweets posted to #xbio and #eb2014 over the Experimental Biology conference. Here they are in a CSV file. Last year there were 5,455 over a 10 day period, and this year...
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No, Dietary Guidelines Are Not Making Us Sick
Frequently I see the claim that dietary guidelines are the reason we are overweight and sick. It is used to sell books, particular diet strategies, or just to inject doubt about government agencies and...
View ArticleChemicals and Food: A Little Perspective
What do formaldehyde, hydrogen peroxide, and acetaldehyde have in common? They are all chemicals that we perceive as dangerous and known carcinogens or mutagens. They are also all likely to be found in...
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Experimental Biology 2015 Tweet Analysis #expbio
Like 2014 and 2013, I collected tweets for the 2015 Experimental Biology conference (dataset here). The following are some comparisons between the 3 years. This year, there was an increase in the total...
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Fact Checking a Perlmutter Interview
Nutritional pseudoscience predominates in part because it is too easy for self-proclaimed experts to get away with saying anything they want without producing evidence. Such is the case for “Grain...
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A Week of Harm #NATMEDWEEK2016
Pardon the dust here, I know it’s been awhile… This week (October 10-16) marks the 4th annual “US Naturopathic Medicine Week”. This week was actually officially designated by the US Senate by a...
View ArticleA letter to my state representatives against naturopathic licensure...
Note: this post is part of a series that examines the fallacies of naturopathic and alternative medicine. For background, see here. I currently live in the state of Indiana, which does not license...
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Data Mining The Dr. Oz Show #NATMEDWEEK2016
Note: this post is part of a series that examines the fallacies of naturopathic and alternative medicine. For background, see here. The Dr. Oz Show is an archetype of pseudoscience and quackery, giving...
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