“[The Low-Carb Community Is Its Own Worst Enemy]”(https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/916329)
This article is targeted at medical professionals and concludes
Blockquote "Less Hyperbole, More Collaborations
If the low-carb community wants to make inroads into the medical community as a whole, I have two recommendations for them. First, the community must do more to call out its own bad actors. As it stands now, at least online, the low-carb community is a self-congratulatory, reinforcing, at times vicious echo chamber. Doing more to police its own members’ hyperbole and ugliness would allow for thoughtful discussions and collaborations.
Second, the community should be expressly championing low-carb diets as just one of many options for those seeking weight loss or other diet-related health benefits, not the sole option. Physicians, generally speaking, are quite comfortable with multiple treatment modalities, and diet should be no different — especially because one person’s best diet can be another person’s worst."