"A colleague once defined an academic discipline as a group of scholars who had agreed not to ask certain embarrassing questions about key assumptions."
— Gary Taubes

January 1, 1970

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Chapter 14, “The Mythology of Obesity” (p. 229; quoting Mark Nathan Cohen)