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Author of Rethinking Diabetes, The Case for Keto, The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Bad Science, and Nobel Dreams
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A Fancy Name for Junk Food

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By Gary Taubes
| The Atlantic Verified
Once again, Americans are in a panic over what we eat. More than two-thirds of those surveyed now regard the industrially produced, ultra-processed foods, or UPFs, that dominate the U.S. food supply as addictive, according to a study published earlier this month in the American Journal of Public Health. That’s just the start of it. Most respondents said that UPFs are a major source of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity.
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Viewpoint: Toxic politics and the culture wars-MIT’s ‘Undark’ caves to the MAHA-RFK, Jr.-predatort lobby

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By Gary Taubes, Geoffrey Kabat, Jon Entine, Michael Schulson Verified
| Genetic Literacy Project
Few issues reveal the corrosion of scientific reasoning in contemporary politics more clearly than the escalating fight over the alleged public-health dangers of everyday chemical exposures. What should be a technical debate about dose–response effects, uncertainty, and risk analysis has morphed into a media-fueled culture war.
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Viewpoint: Toxic controversy-Was MIT’s ‘Undark’ seduced by MAHA, RFK, Jr. and the anti-chemical tort ecosystem?

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By Gary Taubes, Geoffrey Kabat, Michael Schulson Verified
| Genetic Literacy Project
Recently, the article “The Cultural and Political Moment for Toxins Research” by Michael Schulson for Undark Magazine, an MIT-funded publication, elicited strong responses from both Geoffrey Kabat, an epidemiologist and author, and investigative science writer Gary Taubes. Schulson serves as a contributing editor for Undark, and over his career, has written insightfully for a range of publications, including NPR, Pacific Standard, Slate, and Wired.
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