Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

What if Doctors Stopped Prescribing Weight Loss?

Focusing on body size isn’t making people healthier. Some clinicians are trying a different approach

Beacon Press: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.

The Website Obesity Crisis

This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2015, at the Web Directions conference in Sydney. [53 minute video].

Death of the calorie

For more than a century we’ve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

I saw in a recent issue of the Times Literary Supplement that you have been critical of the “chambermaid” study which purported to show that people were losing weight without changing their diet or exercise. I agree that this study did not show what it claimed.

Least resistance weight loss

The weight-loss industry preys on scientific naivete, often conflating good nutrition with the caloric deficit necessary to lose weight.

Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

Far-reaching changes to the structure and function of the Earth's natural systems represent a growing threat to human health. And yet, global health has mainly improved as these changes have gathered pace. What is the explanation? As a Commission, we are deeply concerned that the explanation is straightforward and sobering: we have been mortgaging the health of future generations to realise economic and development gains in the present. By unsustainably exploiting nature's resources, human civilisation has flourished but now risks substantial health effects from the degradation of nature's life support systems in the future.

Claims about scientific rigour require rigour

Nature Human Behaviour - Claims about scientific rigour require rigour

ATProto's Application Primacy

The amount of chatter from ATmosphere developers around an “everything app” has me thinking of an article from almost exactly 10 years ago. Back in 2016, Joel Monegro at USV wrote about “fat protocols

Medical Algorithms Are Failing Communities Of Color

Medical algorithms routinely make decisions about patients’ health care, yet they are rife with bias. Health equity must be built into the development and deployment of these health algorithms.

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do

OR: the long overdue forest fire

Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice

Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds