Now the salt hysterics are proved wrong

Fat, booze, global cooling, global warming, malthusian famine and now salt - there's no end to the 'expert' advice that we are fed that turns out to be bogus.  Yet our brilliant statists continue to claim that they have the expertise, and just the doggone innate and superior goodness to save us from ourselves. If only we would give them more coercive power and money.

So:  How do you know what you know?

SOMEBODY TELL MIKE BLOOMBERG: Gary Taubes: Salt, We Misjudged You. “With nearly everyone focused on the supposed benefits of salt restriction, little research was done to look at the potential dangers. But four years ago, Italian researchers began publishing the results from a series of clinical trials, all of which reported that, among patients with heart failure, reducing salt consumption increased the risk of death. Those trials have been followed by a slew of studies suggesting that reducing sodium to anything like what government policy refers to as a ‘safe upper limit’ is likely to do more harm than good. . . . Proponents of the eat-less-salt campaign tend to deal with this contradictory evidence by implying that anyone raising it is a shill for the food industry and doesn’t care about saving lives.” Of course they do.