Gary Taubes delivers the 38th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture (Syracuse, Sept 17, 2026)
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On September 17, 2026, Gary Taubes delivered the 38th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. The lecture was titled “The Uncertainty Principle: Diet, Disease, and the Limits of Scientific Consensus.”
According to the event listing, Taubes’s talk addressed how scientific consensus is formed in nutrition, when that consensus deserves trust, and the gap between consensus and certainty — a theme he describes as running through his four-decade career, from his early reporting on cold fusion to his work on dietary fat and sugar.
The lecture ties together his newsletter’s “uncertainty” branding with his long-standing argument that nutrition authorities should be candid about what science has not yet settled.
Timeline
- September 17, 2026 — Taubes delivers the Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy at Syracuse University: “The Uncertainty Principle: Diet, Disease, and the Limits of Scientific Consensus.”
