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The page in mainspace about Nina Teicholz is salted due to continual promotional efforts. I have attempted to create a decent article about this person.
The first diff, in which I created this draft, contains adoptions of two sentences about publication of the book and its being a "best book of the year" from User:Leslieaun/Teicholz draft, which was written by Leslieaun, who works for a PR firm that was under contract from Teicholz. The history here is a bit complicated, but while Leslieaun was working the draft she made through AfC, another paid editor created the Teicholz article directly, and according to Leslieaun, with whom I spoke, Teicholz then fired her firm.
Leslieaun told me that she kept trying to get her version adopted even after Teicholz fired her firm, because Teicholz is accomplished and deserves a decent WP article. I moved Leslieaun's draft out of AfC and into her userspace (User:Leslieaun/Teicholz draft), since it was no longer appropriate for AfC, as it duplicated an existing article.
However, the created-by-the-other-paid-editor Nina Teicholz page was then speedy deleted, as that paid editor turned out to be a sock. So we are back to no article and nothing in the AfC queue.
Hence this draft,which I wrote, with the exception of the bit mentioned in the 2nd paragraph above.
Teicholz' notability, to the extent that folks agree that she has it, is really centered in the period 2014 to 2015, when her advocacy for a low-carb/high fat diet was leveraged with Arnold Foundation money just at the time that the 2015 guidelines were coming out. Before and after she is a fairly run of the mill journalist. There is little coverage about her other than that. Jytdog (talk) 21:51, 19 February 2018 (UTC) (added some clarifications via redactions Jytdog (talk) 23:58, 18 April 2018 (UTC))
Cannot find a RS for her birth year. I understand it is 1965 from prior versions of the article... :( Jytdog (talk) 03:06, 20 February 2018 (UTC) (added Jytdog (talk) 18:30, 20 February 2018 (UTC))
The other draft says her degree is in American Studies, which is more or less what one would expect for an NPR Americas reporter. Any idea how she became knowledgeable about nutrition? ☆ Bri (talk) 04:42, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
User:Capricornthought -- about your edits here and here.
The New yorker piece says " In promoting red meat and rejecting grains, the paleo diet challenges just about every precept that nutritionists have been pushing for the past fifty years. In effect, it turns the familiar food pyramid on its point. This is an increasingly common inversion, if not in academic circles or at the U.S. Department of Agriculture then on the talk-show circuit. ....Though the paleos, the anti-glutenists, and the lard-ons are not exactly anti-vaccination or Area 51 types, they are, by necessity, conspiracy theorists. There must be some reason that the U.S. government has kept the dark truth about spelt and tofu hidden from us. Durant blames “the vegetarian lobby.” Teicholz suspects “olive oil money.”"
If you do not see that as "critical" then I would be interested in seeing how you characterize that. This is probably the weakest source there - I used it just so I could bring in that great quote.
The Economist review is the real "meaty" source here. It says:
The other sources here are clear on this as well. In the Medscape interview Teicholz says: "That hypothesis seems to be fundamentally wrong. It's not a matter of slightly shifting course but completely overturning it." (this is not just "investigation" but "criticism" indeed tearing down and "overturning")
The Politico piece starts out with "When Nina Teicholz called out the authors of the federal dietary recommendations for shoddy science and conflicts of interest in a prominent medical journal late last month, she left out some key details about herself. While she presents herself as a journalist, her approach is more crusading than impartial. Her most recent book is a take-down of the nutrition establishment called, “The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet,” which advocates the health benefits of a high-fat diet – considered heresy in many quarters. " Again - this is unambigious "criticism"
The rest of the sources say the same.
In Wikipedia we summarize sources. In my view "criticize" is a much better summary than "investigate". Please explain your reasoning. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 15:10, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
User:Sirlanz, what is the source for what Teicholz studied? Would be great to add that but we cannot, without an RS. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 00:28, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
The article seems more interested in criticisms of her views than the views themselves, which is problematic, and which I hope to address. ♫ RichardWeiss talk contribs 19:27, 11 October 2021 (UTC)