I was so disappointed when I read this article yesterday. It started out with the example of scurvy, which showed that the then medical community was wrong (just like in the time of Ignaz Semmelweis and the issue of handwashing), but that while slow, progress was made and scurvy (and new mothers' deaths from septicemia) is now mostly a thing of the past. So: yay! The implication is that the medical community has been dragging its self-satisfied feet over a solution that humanity will now benefit from.

But no: if you are obese, you are done; give in and just focus on becoming healthy fatty.

And the article's therefore is that doctors should be nicer. Pfff - good luck with that.