Comment by wildmanx

This article is not a scientific paper. It's describing some effects that are observed in a lab.

The world is not so binary as you make it out to be. The article is not forming a "new truth". Of course elite athletes are eating a lot. Nobody was questioning that. Neither do anecdotes stating "I trained my butt off, it worked" negate what's in the article.

The topic is complex, too complex to be pressed into a simple slogan. The article is not "controversial" to anybody remotely knowledgeable about biology.

You can question that the world is complex, but that won't make it less complex.