Christopher Gardner is exuberant in his distress. Wearing a black sweatshirt emblazoned with the word “SCIENCE” in all caps one recent afternoon, the Stanford nutrition scientist threw his arms over his head and declared: “Science is under attack.”
Gardner could have been referring to any number of recent headlines. On this particular day, the shaggy-haired professor was talking about something health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to do by year-end: change U.S. dietary guidelines to encourage consumption of more saturated fat.
