Gary Taubes
- Contributor
Oakland, CA
Time Capsule 2: 2005, The Re-Interview with Epidemiology Monitor
Posted on April 8, 2019
Time Capsule 1: 1996, Interview with EpiMonitor
Posted on April 8, 2019
Science and the media: a pathological relationship?
Posted on June 25, 2018
Big Food and Pharma. Killing for Profit?
Posted on April 9, 2018
A very brief thought about nutritional epidemiology, courtesy of Jordan Peterson
Posted on March 29, 2018
Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (2011) and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK. Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999 and 2001. (He is the first print journalist to win this award three times.) Taubes graduated from Harvard College in 1977 with an S.B. degree in applied physics, and received an M.S. degree in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and in journalism from Columbia University (1981).
