Robb, you know for a fact that the Kruse thing was festering long before the cruise fiasco. There is a long long thread in my inbox about Kruse’s mendacity that is three months before the cruise fiasco. But no one would publicly take a stand on him except a few rather minor hobbyist female bloggers like me until them. After not just Carbsane, but me and Emily Deans were dragged through the mud by him and his cronies and it became a full-scale police incident, you gave a statement on Paleohacks that was rather half-hearted to be honest. I still think you somehow thought we were behind it. It was the thing that forced me to realize that people don’t really care about science in the paleo community, they will only take a stand if their reputation is at stake.

Now that it’s a war between you and Carbsane you won’t take that because you think people will interpret you not going on the cruise to letting her win or something. You are willing to spend less time with your family and wade into the sunk cost fallacy on that account. It’s too bad. I honestly do believe you care about the core of the paleo principles that help people and I was happy to see you take a stand for evolutionary medicine in this post, but then you are going on a cruise run by the man who has essentially eviscerated paleo of that very thing. Read your last blog posts and think about whether they are congruent at all with what Jimmy promotes, which is lately a borderline-eating disorder (https://www.facebook.com/LLVLC/posts/504832729573313). I think you know this really and that is why you are so sensitive to Carbsane’s quips.

My comment on Robb’w blog

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She has apparently never heard of (or bothered to speak with) people like Robb Wolf, Mark Sisson, Loren Cordain, Sarah Fragoso or Diane Sanfilippo for example. I think she’s just bitter for some reason that Paleo has seen such amazing success in recent years and intended to frame what people think about that era for herself. Who knows? Don’t waste your time on this book!

Jimmy Moore

Note that the book he supposedly read contains Cordain 21 times, Sisson 10, and references Robb Wolf twice. Jimmy Moore, did your really read this book?

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You’re cute, Melissa. But I actually did read the book and simply disagreed with the author’s conclusions. It’s just my review of the book.

Jimmy Moore on the comments of his book review for Paleofantasy, which is a repeat of his own tragic paleofantasy show in which he promotes a diet based on a philosophy he doesn’t even believe in.

Notice he doesn’t contradict me about my statement on him not even believing in evolution.

As user D.Young put it “That is super condescending to call Melissa “cute” btw. Last time I checked that word only applied to kittens and toddlers.”

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There’s a men’s retreat with my church this weekend, but I refuse to go for the first time in years. Why? They bring sugary sodas, chips, candy bars, crackers, snack cakes and other pure carbage for the guys to munch on all weekend. I usually bring my own snacks or fast, but the more I’ve thought about it this is truly disgusting. If the church purports to care about the spiritual health of its people, then why don’t they care about the physical body of those same people? It’s time to take a stand on behalf of these precious people who don’t need to have their destructive nutritional habits reinforced by an organization whose purpose is to help make their lives somehow better. Sorry for the soapbox, but this was really weighing heavy on me today.

Jimmy Moore

I know, I feel the same way, but about The Ancestral Health Symposium. Why? They have Jimmy Moore, a known promoter of pseudoscience, as a panel moderator for the second year in a row. Oh and also accepted his n=1 “experiment” poster for the poster presentations. I usually bring real science and facts to conferences, but the more I’ve thought about it this is truly disgusting. If AHS purports to care about people getting healthier through science, then why don’t they have some modicum of basic standards of integrity when deciding their conference lineup? 

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And anyone claiming to have “beat” breast cancer after only two years is blowing smoke. Women diagnosed with early BC can EASILY live 5 years with minimal or even no treatment. BC is not cancer of the pancreas. This is just more dangerous hucksterism being promoted by Jimmy.
Dr. Kurt Harris on Jimmy Moore promoting quackery about cancer and keto. 

Source: carbsanity.blogspot.com

Paul Riemann

I don’t know how much of a “friend” Richard Nikoley has been lately Jimmy…he’s attacked and criticized you (and low carb) several times over the past few months. And his (more recent) overemphasis on his atheist/materialist worldview—which is patently false—has left a bad taste in my mouth as of late. He’s certainly had it out with me at his blog when I have challenged his empirical epistemology—which he uses to attack and ridicule Christianity or any form of theism. I’ve enjoyed Richard’s blog, but when he’s wrong I call him out on it.

Jimmy Moore
He’s certainly entitled to his opinions on us blog.

Paul Riemann
That’s beside the point Jimmy. And I nowhere claimed that he isn’t. Just don’t let your critics turn you into a doormat. Be civil, but challenge their claims. Nikoley has been extolling the virtues of white potatoes for months now…and not just as being so called “safe starches”, but he has been doing so while being highly critical of LC and has specifically gone after you on many recent occasions. I know I’m not informing you of anything you don’t already know, but I’m just a little curious what motivates your silence at times? I understand that you consider him a friend, but I find that—at times—I disagree and debate rather vociferously with my close friends. Strong disagreement and debate can exist even among good friends.

But to digress…and by the way, your podcasts are amazing and the blog is among the finest available on health and nutrition. Thank you so much for what you do.

Jimmy Moore

I don’t mind my ideas being challenged. Happens everyday. But what Richard never does is attack me personally. That’s the difference. Civility in the blogging world would make it a much better place.

You can browse the Nikoley-related tags here to get a dose of his civility. I guess Jimmy Moore’s version of civility is anything that doesn’t attack him personally.

Source: livinlavidalowcarb.com

10 Critical Issues The Paleo Community Must Address

Jimmy Moore tells the paleo community the ten critical issues they must address. The whole thing reads like  ”10 Critical Issues That Are Keeping Jimmy Moore From Cashing in On The Paleo Trend.” He once again tries to tie criticism of his professed Creationism with bashing of “paleo Christians” a mythical species he has invented. I can tell you that Chris Masterjohn is certainly Christian, but that toast and lentils-eater is 100% not paleo in any sense of the definition.

 Unfortunately, somehow there’s this misconception out there from some people in the Paleo community who seemingly have such utter contempt for Christians that they think if you believe in Jesus then you obviously don’t believe in the theory of evolution, you must think the Earth is only 6,000 years old, you can’t possibly believe there was such a thing as the Paleolithic era and other such examples exposing their downright ignorance of what Christians actually believe. 

Um, you can hear Jimmy espouse just those ideas in his own podcast. 

One of the people who e-mailed me after hearing this podcast, which he described as “bad,” exclaimed matter-of-factly that “evolution is a fact…the Bible is a fairy tale.” Because I shared in a follow-up e-mail with him that I’m a Christian who does not believe in the Darwinian theory of evolution and that the Bible has great meaning in my life, he actually cancelled his reservations for The Low-Carb Cruise coming up in May 2012. Oh well, it’s his loss and seems rather immature to do over a simple disagreement about something a podcast interview guest shared. Very strange.

Most of the rest of the list is all about Jimmy too, how antagonism to low-carb and muckrackers are soooo bad. Bad for him. Of course one of the real critical issues in the paleo community is how someone like him is preaching to the movement without getting laughed off the stage. And also the kind of pseudoscience he’s only too happy to promote. He’d be only too happy if people stopped questioning his role in paleo.