Bad Data Science and Woody Allen

For breakfast he requests wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk - food in 1973 thought to be healthy. The futuristic doctors reply: "You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?" and "Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true." A recent article in the Wall Street Journal entitled "The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease" details scientific malpractice in research about what food is healthy or not. For over fifty years the scientific consensus was that fat - both saturated or not - is a "cause" of obesity, heart disease, and other chronic diseases.