Todd> "Another irresponsible claim."

You've made a case that Audette and Cordain were to a degree
"irresponsible" and that they made false promises about how to lose weight.
I'm just going to talk about Audette.  I can see how one might see an
irreconcilability to Ray's claim early on in the book that calories don't
matter, that you can eat whatever quantities of whatever you want, and his
later warning that to lose weight you had better watch the calories.  But
here's where I think you're confused.  Despite the title "Neaderthin"
(which has always bothered me),  the book is NOT primarily a guide to
weight loss.  Ray purpose in writing the book was to share his personal
success in overcoming a host of maladies that have nothing to do with being
overweight.  He addresses obesity as but one potential problem that results
from our post-neolithic diet, and he proposes a specific solution to it
later in the book.  But first he wants to tell you how and why this diet
will make each and every one of us a healthier human being.

The book's full message on losing weight is that you can eat all you want
until you have reached a plateau, at which point you have to consider
caloric restriction.  And Ray's recommendations on post-plateau weight loss
seem to me to be solid:  Eat only fruits with low sugar content; drink
fresh squeezed juices only; get the majority of your calories from lean
meat, nuts, seeds, and oil; eat fatty fish such as salmon, herring,
mackeral, tuna; eat MUFA-rich nuts such as almonds, macadamia, hazelnuts;
consume olive oil and flaxseed oil.  Sounds like he's advocating a low
calorie, high fat diet with an emphasis on Omega 3 fatty acids for weight
loss.  I believe you've said before that you've tried this, that it doesn't
solve your problem.  That's fair.  Maybe Ray's wrong here, or maybe he
isn't and there are other issues at work for you.  But claims of
irresponsiblity on Ray's part are, if not outright false, at least diluted
by the fact that he's not talking primarily to overweight folks.