Lancet Opinion Piece on "Clinical Obesity"

In November I responded to readers’ questions about a paper that was being teased to the media suggesting a new definition for “ob*sity.” The paper is now out, and it’s even worse than I thought. I’ve had a lot of requests to write about it and there is a ton of media on it right now (though, sadly, not a ton of any kind of critical/investigative journalism.)

As regular readers know, I am in the middle of a four-part series with Dr. Zed Zha about weight and inflammation. I’m pausing that today to give an overview of the issues with this article from the initial analysis that I’ve completed. After the final two pieces of the inflammation series are published, I’ll have a deep dive into the massive conflicts of interest and methodological issues with this paper.