The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
" Fear of loss of job, grant, or status also makes it
hard for professional scientists to propose radical new ideas. Self-experimenters, trying to solve
their own problem on their own time, are not trapped like this.
Acne illustrates the problem. The dermatological party line is that diet doesn't cause acne.
According to a website of the American Academy of Dermatology, "extensive scienti c studies"
show it's a "myth" that "acne is caused by diet." According to "guidelines for care" for
dermatologists published in 2007, "dietary restriction (either speci c foods or food classes) has
not been demonstrated to be of bene t in the treatment of acne." In fact, there is overwhelming
evidence linking diet and acne. Starting in the 1970s, a Connecticut doctor named William
Danby collected evidence connecting dairy consumption and acne; it is telling that Danby wasn't
a professional scientist. When his patients gave up dairy, it often helped. In 2002, six scientists
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