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On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. So do not take the lecture too seriously, feeling that you really have to understand in terms of some model what I am going to describe, but just relax and enjoy it. I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nob...

It is not strictly the 20th anniversary of this repeatedly-quoted lecture – that would have been the 17th of January, but I am not a strict by-the-calendar guy. I post the complete lecture here, in its entirety, which is not usually done – almost always only excerpts or quips are quoted — but that is at the cost of the marvelous line of reasoning which is the true power of the lecture.

Noakes continues with the tale of Keys’ cholesterol con, picking up in 1979, when the results of the Helsinki Policemen Study were published.

The scientists who dared to question the diet-heart hypothesis were ignored, silenced, or canceled.