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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD

@kcklatt.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof, @uoftnutrisci.bsky.social @uoftmedicine.bsky.social. #Metabolism Researcher, #Dietitian. Associate Editor, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. By way of: UC Berkeley, Baylor CoM, NIH, Cornell Kcklatt.substack.com

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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 20h
No one could have prepared me adequately in my training as a dietitian for 2020s wellness trends
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The MAHA Summit is a clear sign that it's become a shell of whatever grassroots movement it claimed to be. MAHA was always a mix of a bunch of different groups but it's pretty clear the profiteering wellness types & the extreme technofuturists are winning out (unsurprising given the MAGA alliance)
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Really excellent women's health symposium here at @utoronto.ca @unityhealthto.bsky.social covering all things women's health from basic science and technologies through to clinical trials! www.linkedin.com/company/crs-...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A great overview of how the Trump admin cultivated fear inside NIH to force compliance, even with harmful, unethical & unlawful orders. Also covers origins of the Bethesda Declaration community. From my friend & co-organizer Dr. Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts
Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The MAHA Summit is a clear sign that it's become a shell of whatever grassroots movement it claimed to be. MAHA was always a mix of a bunch of different groups but it's pretty clear the profiteering wellness types & the extreme technofuturists are winning out (unsurprising given the MAGA alliance)
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CDC confirms multistate outbreak of E coli linked to raw milk cheese Over half the patients are young children, and California and Nevada have the most cases. Read more: bit.ly/3TdVtih
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great course for isotope (& isotope curious) scientists at all stages! #metabolism
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For any following the continued chaos of the ADA, Diabetes Care EIC Steve Kahn (1 of the 5 scientists thrown out of the ADA conference this summer) just published an article in Diabetologia to avoid continued censorship from ADA link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICYMI: "It's a zombified CDC." The agency that was once the world's "undisputed leader in public health" is a skeleton of its former self. by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 28/09/2026
Recent outbreaks of foodborne illness and high-profile recalls have made this issue a concern of voters. kffhealthnews.org/elections/food-sa…
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Food Safety Finds a Place Among ‘Kitchen-Table' Political Issues - KFF Health News
Recent outbreaks of foodborne illness and high-profile recalls have made this issue a concern of voters.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 23/09/2026
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. privately said he wants the federal government to recommend a cancer-detection test that has sharply divided medical professionals but has close financial ties to the MAHA movement.
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Kennedy Privately Backs Cancer-Detection Tests With Ties to MAHA
Several key industry players developing the tests are sponsoring or speaking at the Make America Healthy Again Summit next week, which will be attended by top health officials.
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NY Times @nytimes-news.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com
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Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Arrived in beautiful Corvallis for #SciWri26 - looking forward to sitting on the closing Plenary panel to unpack 2 years of MAHA & the media
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The peer reviewer crisis is only being made worse by the peer reviewers agreeing to review but turning in AI slop as the final review. Have seen it as an editor and had it happen to me. Seems to be little discussion of it as our institutions stick by the status quo despite inadequacy of our systems.
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Finally replaced the COVID-era apartment professional pic that was on the brink of catfishing. Here's to hoping that there's enough retinoids and sunscreen to not have to update this for another 10 years
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The near daily e-mails I get with these sorts of exploitative pitches leave me confident we're gonna be inundated with AI nutriton slop in the coming years and it's gonna extract more money from consumers than we've ever spent on nutrition research.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 05/09/2026
Ok here we go: It DOES look like a major purpose of this NIH funding transfer to NIH is to circumvent NIH’s peer review processes so political appointees can have control. Check out the redacted agreement @maxkozlov.bsky.social released: 1/
AGENCY-AGREEMENT-NIH-AND-DOW-REDACTED v
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Federal departments, agencies, and offices with respect to the identification of additional priority virus families and other viral pathogens with a significant potential to cause a pandemic" (42
U.S.C. § 285f-5(e)(1)).
Through this agreement, NIH will leverage OASW ND-CBD's procurement, grants, and funding network to allow for critical basic science
I, related research pathways, and basic research to
support the translation and advanced development of medical countermeasures.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Where do I acknowledge Tribble for his 'help' writing this grant?
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The required Canadian CV platform is gonna turn me into a villain
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Caught a clip of RFK Jrs YouTube cooking show and somehow we are 2 years in and he is still saying that the food industry bought out our dietary guidelines and put fruit loops at the top of the pyramid - not understanding still somehow that the top is the stuff to be minimized.
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Merits of this individual study aside, I'm glad to see more work looking at traditional global dietary patterns.The Mediterranean diet has been borderline fetishized & promoted as the most evidence-based diet, benefiting from early interests from high $ nations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Reminder that if you're messaging about ultraprocessed foods being bad could remove the UPF term and be replaced with vaccines and sound exactly like a common anti-vaccine talking point, you're doing scicomm wrong and you're doing more harm than good for public health.
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Reminder to the academic nutrition community who think that this man is someone you can work with and push good faith science-based nutrition policy... He's nothing more than a bad faith hack lawyer who will use conspiracy to try to distract from 2 deaths resulting from his disinformation
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Help, I'm new to the Microsoft 365 system and drunk off coding Power Automate apps
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The nutrition world continues to be it's own worst enemy with messaging 🙃
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Life's little joys: Iced coffee, cats and solvent resistant laboratory markers
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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Biblical Nutrition! Joined by @memingless.com & @kcklatt.bsky.social to dig into the world of "biblical nutrition," and proclaimed expert Annette Reader, particularly her viral claims about phytic acid and high-fructose corn syrup, Links: tinyurl.com/yzd2sbxt
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Following up on an incidental very cool finding from 2017 (!) that I didn't have the time/$/resources to pursue at the time and just repeated the finding this week almost 10yrs later. Different cell source in a different lab/city - reproducibility win!
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Bought a new work bag yesterday (for myself,ostensibly)
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Fellow Associate Editors, the answer to the peer review crisis is NOT to assign the manuscript to someone without them agreeing to review it, even if it is for a 2nd review. This is extra bad if your publication fees are $12850USD and you're expecting more uncompensated peer review labor.
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Thankful for UPF clothing and Canadian 🇨🇦 approval of Mexoryl !
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Here's to hoping this is truly the last RD exam I have to take! 🇨🇦
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uoftnutrisci.bsky.social @uoftnutrisci.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Congratulations to @kcklatt.bsky.social for receiving the ASN Sylvia Rowe Award for Excellence in Nutrition Science Communications, recognizing mid-career professionals who excel at communicating nutrition science to diverse audiences and promoting evidence-based dialogue.
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My take on UPFs continues to be: - there is a need for understanding attributes of foods that influence health beyond classical nutrients, creating metrics around them, and incorporating them into dietary guidance, labeling and regulations.
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
ADA Scientific Sessions 2026: a line crossed - @thelancet.com Must read for scientists and professional societies share.google/SMRZ8QJxcOTq...
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ADA Scientific Sessions 2026: a line crossed
There were extraordinary scenes at the Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans earlier this month. Five researchers were forced from the premises by on-site secur...
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Wild to see this celebrated as a win. Basically putting experimental sciences in humans back 25yrs - on the same platform as p-hacked and HARKd preclinical models, but worse given how hard it is to repeat human studies. Huge loss @naturemetabolism.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Reclassification of basic experimental studies in humans — a case for a new publishing consensus - Nature Metabolism
Basic experimental studies in humans are not clinical trials. The National Institutes of Health now recognizes this distinction, and it is time for funding agencies, journals and institutions worldwid...
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It’s the Bethesda Declaration’s birthday — to mark the occasion, 73 NIHers have a report outlining ongoing concerns, which have become “more insidious and systematized, but no less harmful” as @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put it www.statnews.com/2026/06/09/n...
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NIH staffers published a letter of dissent a year ago. They feel it’s been ignored
In a report published on the first anniversary of the Bethesda Declaration, 71 staffers write that they feel NIH leadership “largely ignored" their concerns
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
For no particular reason, I'll be starting a side consultant PR firm for professional societies struggling to navigate bending the knee to a federal administration actively attacking everything they purportedly stand and serving their members.
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Reflecting on #ADA26 and the growing options for very successfully treating obesity & reducing intake dramatically, yet there continues to be a lack of data assessing dietary intake & nutr status, as well as the lack of referrals to & funding for RDs - & no one who's going to pay to fill these gaps.
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conscienhealth.bsky.social @conscienhealth.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
At the #ADASciSessions, it is clear that injecting politics into science has proven to be a terrible distraction. conscienhealth.org/2026/06/07/a...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
As Dr Woychick, advisor for the MAHA strategy to Dr Bhattacharya, was giving his speech defending MAHA & its political oversight of & interference in science, police were removing conference attendees for criticizing MAHA & MAGA’s destruction of science Please sign 👇 www.change.org/p/an-open-le...
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Sign the Petition
An Open Letter to the American Diabetes Association: Shame on You
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Remember when people used to debate about low carb vs low fat 😂
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Attending #ADA26 is a sad reminder that nutrition has been chronically underfunded, with limited federal support and both limited & largely unserious industry support. The breadth and quality of data here, largely driven by commercial incentives, puts the field of nutrition to shame.
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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Sad events here at #ADA26 - ADA has chosen the side of this administration - pretending it's unsafe to an invited federal speaker to hand out an editorial - over supporting its own leadership who've dedicated countless volunteer hours to the org's right to protest. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Incredibly disturbing story broken by @medpagetoday.com team. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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