Nicole M. Luongo
1 min readOct 3, 2020

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I just want to point out that Keys was deeply racist, and that he was instrumental in re-popularizing the BMI scale (which we know is junk science on an individual level). He was also incredibly fatphobic. I get that the MSE is seminal, but I grapple with whether he should be cited or just fade into obscurity.

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Nicole M. Luongo
Nicole M. Luongo

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