When Scientific Paradigms Collide
What if overeating doesn’t make you fat?
7 min readAug 3, 2022
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This post expands upon, and was modified from, an opinion article in The Washington Post
Most science operates under “normal” conditions, according to the famous philosopher Thomas Kuhn. Normal science aims to develop and refine a conventional way of thinking about nature — a paradigm — not overturn it. Because…