First, that is "The Case Against Sugar", which is a different book. Second, I would not be surprised when someone challenges decades of accepted doctrine that has a defense bordering on zealotry that they are attacked on all fronts. I cannot understand why people who call themselves intellectuals or scientists or doctors simply are so vested in their positions that they completely and totally discount any possible evidence presented otherwise no matter how compelling.
When someone shows me something that is factual - not subjective - and makes me re-evaluate my position, I am thankful. I don't want to walk around my whole life in ignorance or with an incorrect position.
In "Why We get Fat", Taubes points out case study after case study of peer reviewed papers, diets, and findings of the largest and most well-known medical organizations on the planet. He points out what they hoped to find, what they found and how these studies were flawed or weren't, and why. He frequently speaks to what he knows, and what he believes - and the distinction between this. He talks about what is settled and what should be challenged, and welcomes people to challenge his conclusions.
I would also point to the sugar lobby's influence in stifling anything anti-sugar in the press, on the internet and in Washington. They are very powerful, as you probably know.
