The great thing about icons is that sooner or later, they always fall. It’s the job of general iconoclasts, like me, to laf and ridicule (sometimes at myself, even)—to hasten the process—all the while folks are busy holding on for dear life: banking on, , life styling, worshiping, and making livings off their iconic idols. The strong survive, though, so it’s just really a process of evolutionary natural selection. Nothing to be afraid of. Adapt, or face scorn and dismissal.

Recent jaunts into this area have been the posts on iron “enrichment” (here and here), Paleo getting it wrong on grains, and a brief history of the astounding popularity and abuse of bloodletting (that’s highly related to the iron posts). A forthcoming post will expand on paleo getting it completely wrong on grains, by means of serious conflation—that’s tantamount to holding a position against eating eggs because so many people eat just the whites.

Recently a new study came out: The Importance of Dietary Carbohydrate in Human Evolution.