Tom Naughton’s Diet, Health, and the Wisdom of Crowds: Brilliant

Tom Naughton, filmmaker of Fat Head fame, gave this presentation at Springfield College in Massachusetts.

I don’t believe that I have ever heard these concepts of the wisdom of crowds, combined with a brief history of nutritional “science” gone wrong, presented with such clarity and wit. In a word, Tom’s presentation is absolutely brilliant. It is all the more astounding that a filmmaker and former stand-up comic can trump the “science” of nutrition, exposing it for the dogmatic drivel that it is, thanks to a peculiar convergence of politics, the push of Big Food, and bad science.

My favorite among the quotes he uses: “Science progresses one funeral at a time.” Anyone interested in understanding how we, as a nation and world, have arrived at this place of astounding nutritional ignorance, Tom’s presentation, as well as his Fat Head movie classic, are must viewing.