Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus - New York Times

Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus - New York Times: "The scientists, despite their impressive credentials, were accused of bias because some of them had done research financed by the food industry. And so the informational cascade morphed into what the economist Timur Kuran calls a reputational cascade, in which it becomes a career risk for dissidents to question the popular wisdom."