For those of you who missed the USA Today article , a professor decided that, amid a world awash with animal fats, she needed to single out coconut oil as pure poison. I went looking, and here's what I found: In July of 2018, researchers attempted to compare different fats . They did this by combining every study they could find that compared two fats. If one fat was compared against olive oil, and another fat was compared against olive oil, they assumed that the two fats would perform similarly against each other. If you have a question about this logic, so did they, but they were pretty desperate. No definitive research. Why? Because, and this is important, almost no research has been done on comparing different fats. So when anyone, no matter what their degrees, and no matter how many letters they have after their name, says anything definitive about comparing fats, they literally don’t know what they are talking about. That means if someone tells you that coconut oil is po...