Today will be the first post in a short series discussing attempts to “calculate” the (supposed) “costs” of “ob*sity.”

Before we get into any of this I want to say unequivocally that anytime we try to calculate the cost of a group of people, including and especially, to support a call for their eradication, we are going down a very bad, very wrong road. So while I will be discussing the specific issues with these calculations, please always remember that the calculations shouldn’t be undertaken in the first place.

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