On to the second and, mercifully, final part of the critical review of the metabolic advantage as presented by A Colpo in his book The Fat-Loss Bible . As discussed in the previous post , our friend, like the kid to the left, is focused so intently on his refusal to believe in even the possibility of the existence of a metabolic advantage that he can’t read the literature correctly – not even the very literature he uses to try to prove his own position. His bias has hypnotized him to the point that he can’t see anything that doesn’t confirm his what he already believes. And this same bias prevents him from even taking a scientific approach to the problem. We all fall victim to the confirmation bias and have to fight it constantly. Gary Taubes thinks I may even have succumbed a little in the earlier post on AC and the metabolic advantage. He emailed me saying he had read the post and thought it was great up to the point right at the end where I wrote that the data on the whole showed that, if anything, there was a metabolic advantage. Gary thought the data presented in all the studies in AC’s chart was ambiguous and that I was going out on a limb a little in making the statement that I thought, if anything, that the papers argued for a metabolic advantage. I disagree. I decided to base this critique not on the scientific literature at large, but instead on only the papers that AC mustered for his argument. I intended to make the critique much like a court case in which one side presents the information and the other attempts to counter it. I didn’t want to go out myself and gather a bunch of papers that confirmed my viewpoint, because then we would have had nothing but a bunch of dueling Ph.Ds, a bunch of he saids, she saids, that wouldn’t prove anything. I stuck with the papers AC used and presented my arguments as to why I didn’t think his papers proved his case. After going back and rereading the post, I still feel that if this ‘evidence’ were presented to a jury, the verdict would come back in favor of my arguments. If anything, AC’s own ‘evidence’ argues for the existence of a metabolic advantage, and, at worst, certainly doesn’t ‘prove’ that one doesn’t exist. Since I posted the first part of my critique, AC has responded using his customary restraint and understated gentility designed to appeal to his sort of reader. His response – as I figured it would be – is merely a listing of even more papers he believes substantiate his claims.

Original Source of AC Fat Loss Bible critique part II