On Monday, Wired published an article about the Nutrition Science Initiative, “The collapse of a $40 million nutrition science crusade“. This seems like a good time to review the trajectory of NuSI and what we can learn from it. NuSI was founded in 2012, ostensibly on the idea that our current understanding of obesity is at best incomplete, and possibly incorrect, and we need larger and more rigorous experiments to tease out its true causes. In practice, it was founded to investigat...
