
Ancel Keys
The scientists who cherry picked his way into history with the very popular, though unproven lipid hypothesis.

The scientists who cherry picked his way into history with the very popular, though unproven lipid hypothesis.

We acknowledge his brilliance, his contemporaries, his genius, and his foibles. And we put to rest an internet meme/hoax that is nearly as old as the internet itself.

The history of medicine has always been the history of alternative medicine, for every new idea, every new theory, every new method of healing has come not from within the bastions of conventional medicine, but rather from outside the current…