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How about overweight subjects eating diets with identical caloric content but demonstrating varying metabolic rates due to differing macronutrient content?

Mr. Taubes,

I appreciate your work and am a Registered Dietitian that advocates the use of carbohydrate restriction for appropriate patients in my practice.

What do you think of the Insulin Index as a measure of the obesogenic potential of foods? This study found that insulin response does not always correlate directly to digestible carbohydrate content, especially in the cases of meats and cheeses, and also suggested that very high-fiber carb foods (like lentils) actually generate the smallest insulin responses.

Do you think further testing and development of the insulin index could help to improve specific food recommendations for weight management, even if those foods turn out to have a significant carbohydrate content (e.g. legumes)?

I like this. I'll contribute to your indiegogo. What are your plans for the data you'll be building of representative votes versus constituency votes? Any plans for an API so others can piggyback off this and find creative ways to make discrepancies more public (like representation report cards in the media come election season)?

Also, I noticed none of the backer levels seem to include a copy of the app when it launches, will it be free?

Doctor: there is a small but dangerous cancer in your lungs, and we'd like to surgically remove it before it spreads.

You: "small but dangerous cancer" wtf? Most of my lung cells are harmless, and if you think my pancreas and throat and testicles can't get cancer, you obviously don't understand those tissues

I have no idea people's party affiliations... The point of having three editors involved is so that different people can offer their viewpoints, analysis to best inform the fact-check. And to make sure balance does exist.

How can you be confident the star chambers provide balance if you don't know people's initial viewpoints? In the sciences, we announce our conflicts of interest loudly and often because no human is free from bias and we want people to judge our conclusions in the context of our biases.

If you take a colorblind-like approach to your editorial process, how do you know you don't end up with three editors that all support the same candidate or position merely amplifying each others' biases instead of challenging them?