When The Conclusions Don’t Match The Headlines (Or The Data): Michael Benton...
This article trumpets a startling lead: “Charles Darwin may have been wrong when he argued that competition was the major driving force of evolution.” “Space is the final frontier for evolution, study...
View ArticleNo, Resveratrol Is Not A Cognitive Enhancer, and Yes, Peer-Reviewed Science...
Here is why you have to read original peer-reviewed research—not just the popular media’s summary of it, or interim findings presented at conferences. Red Wine Goes To Your Head – But Helps You Think...
View ArticleWhy Companies Keep Pay a Secret, and Why You’d Rather Know The Truth
“A new study by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University suggests that if all of our salaries were made known tomorrow, half of us would be made miserable and...
View ArticleWhen The Conclusions Don’t Match The Data: Even Loren Cordain Whiffs It...
(Note: This article has been revised, extended, and greatly improved as a result of an error caught by an alert commenter.) Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st...
View ArticleFat And Glycemic Index: The Myth Of “Complex Carbohydrates”
(This article is Part III of a series on carbohydrate addiction. Each part stands alone, but I recommend starting with Part I, “Why You’re Addicted To Bread“, as it explains the fundamentals. Part II...
View ArticleThe Lipid Hypothesis Has Officially Failed (Part 1 of many)
Feel free to hotlink this image so long as you also make the image a link to http://www.gnolls.org, or put a visible link to gnolls.org under it. Thanks to George McGovern and the “United States Senate...
View ArticleYou Can’t Debunk Everything: How To Avoid Being Baffled By Baloney
Anyone who makes a serious effort to understand the science behind nutrition will understand immediately that news items—most of which simply reprint the press release—are usually pure baloney. In...
View ArticleAlways Be Skeptical Of Nutrition Headlines: Or, What “Red Meat Consumption...
Normally I’d be continuing my ongoing series on the evolutionary history of the human brain. However, there is yet another red meat scare story making the rounds—and many readers have asked me to...
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