ABSTRACT
I now turn to a strain of scepticism that is less concerned with the science of the obesity epidemic and more with its philosophical, ethical and political dimensions. Rather than attempting to argue against obesity science by offering an assessment of the evidence, these authors tend to rely on the work of the empirical sceptics in order to mount other kinds of arguments about the causes and effects of the war on fatness. Below the buzz of scientific claim and counter-claim, they see deeper ideological forces at work.
