[scotje]

Good Calories, Bad Calories has a pretty robust bibliography, and the author, Gary Taubes, is a well respected science reporter. It would be a mistake to characterize his book in the way you have. Check it out from the library and read some of it yourself. :)

[Tichy]

I tried to read most of Good Calories, Bad Calories, but in the end felt no smarter than before. Yes, he dug up a lot of documents, but I can not verify them myself. Most diet "philosophies" can cite any number of research articles (as Taube himself explains in every chapter - it's just that almost all studies seem to have flaws). It actually made me distrust the book a little bit that it was so badly organized. That is, rather than arguing a point well, it just dumps an insurmountable heap of information on the reader.