[artichokeheart]

Such a shame that the author apparently didn't read all of the linked "facts".

eg. "This cause and effect is now beyond reasonable doubt; science shows (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8043072) that high levels of cholesterol cause arterial damage and this, in turn, causes coronary heart disease."

The linked paper and the comments to that paper disputing the findings completely contradicts the author's "beyond reasonable doubt" argument.

I don't have a "team" in this debate, personally I wish scientists would put their pride aside, stop the furious debating and find a definitive answer. I'm just pointing out an obvious flaw in this response.

[mistermann]

Excellent point. It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but I find the anti-fat crowd to be chronically intellectually dishonest.

[adamconroy]

The problem with the 'science' is that the main study done on this topic cherry picked the countries it included in the results and excluded some 20 countries. If you only is d data from the excluded countries you would find the reverse correlation. One has to be very careful to look out for confirmation bias in research.