At 6:00am PDT on Wednesday, September 12 we will be officially, or least publicly, launching the Nutrition Science Initiative, or NuSI (pronounced “new see”). The timing of the launch, one day after we all pause to remember one of the worst days in our nation’s history, is not a coincidence. On September 11 we will all stop to think about what happened in the past. On the 12th, we look forward to what we hope will be one of the most transformative endeavors aimed at reducing the social and economic toll of obesity and its related diseases. Looking back to reflect on the past; looking forward to imagine and create a better world.
Many of you have been following this blog for long enough to know that I’ve been eagerly working on setting up NuSI with a great (yet very small!) team of dedicated folks, including our co-founder, science journalist Gary Taubes. I appreciate the patience you’ve had with the sacrifices I’ve made to work on NuSI, including a need to reduce the frequency of my posts and my ability to respond to all comments and questions on the blog.
I thank you for your understanding and want you to know that it will be worth it.
I’m sure there are many common questions, such as:
Why did we form NuSI?
What will NuSI do?
Who is involved?
What do we hope to accomplish?
How long will it take to achieve our goals?
How much will it cost?
All of these questions will be answered in time, and most of them will be answered on Wednesday.
A number of folks who are supporting our effort will also be writing about NuSI on their blogs this week, so please look for what others are saying, including some, by the way, who don’t even agree with some of the hypotheses that NuSI will test. Why, you ask, would someone who doesn’t agree with me or Gary still support NuSI? Great question. The reason, though, is quite simple.
NuSI is not about me or Gary or low carb or low fat or even “diets,” per se. NuSI is about science. It’s about bringing the rigors of the scientific method, just as they exist in other disciplines of science, to the field of nutrition science. To support NuSI means just one thing: you believe the field of nutrition is at least as deserving of rigorous experimental science as any other field of science, and that our health is too important to gamble based on observations, correlations, best-guesses, or science lacking rigor.
If you agree with this assertion, you’re going to find NuSI right up your alley.
Please stay tuned…
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