Gary Taubes on institutional inability to self-correct (ADA, AHA, NIH culture): warns against

Gary Taubes warns that agencies and associations — naming bodies like the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, and NIH culture — commit to ideas because of funding and institutional momentum and “haven’t set up their system in a way that allows them to pivot easily.” He made the argument in a 2024 interview with Vinnie Tortorich.

His stated reasoning: he says he prefers to think the intentions of these institutions are good but their structures rigid — that grant funding, career incentives, and sunk research costs make it nearly impossible for them to abandon entrenched positions even when the evidence shifts. This institutional critique underpins his broader argument about why nutrition science, in his view, does not self-correct the way physics does.

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