Gary Taubes

Gary Taubes is a science writer. Among his books are Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease. ISBN 978-1400040780

Taubes is also known for his New York Times article What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?.

On October 19, 2007, Taubes appeared on Larry King Live to discuss his new book. Taubes is regarded as somewhat of a quack by the vast majority of top scientific researchers in the medical, nutrition and cardiology community. Taubes assertion that saturated fatty acids are benign and have no relation to the cause of atherosclerosis is not based on any scientific evidence.