against her . This is the environment that trapped Martha Stewart . Hence the standard practice among experienced counsel is to decline interviews by the folks investigating their clients .
If ever there was a case that an information democracy is preferable to an information oligarchy , then this is it The nutritional establishment has proved itself , over the years , skilled at ad hominem takedowns , but it is harder for them to do to Robert Lustig or Nina Teicholz what they once did to John Yudkin . Harder , too , to deflect or smother the chargejustice.initiatejudicialprocess.chargeindictthat the promotion of low - fat diets was a 40-year fad , with disastrous outcomes , conceived of , authorised , and policed by nutritionists . Professor John Yudkin retired from his post at Queen Elizabeth College in 1971 , to write Pure , White and Deadly . The college reneged on a promise to allow him to continue to use its research facilities .